Chris Mason wrote (ao):
I'm happy to patch up bugs in the FS (or point you to newer
kernels that have them fixed) but at this point we don't have enough
info to say if it is an FS problem or a debian package problem.
Perhaps if you ran it under strace?
Other distros don't have problems
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 23:33:33 Sander wrote:
Can you do:
echo true /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst
and try again?
At some point somehow grup-pc apparently got installed, even with the script
failure. So I tried my dist-upgrade again, and seems to have completed almost
400
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao):
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 23:33:33 Sander wrote:
Can you do:
echo true /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst
and try again?
At some point somehow grup-pc apparently got installed, even with the
script failure. So I tried my dist-upgrade
On Friday 6 May, 2011 05:20:28 Sander wrote:
Can you post the error?
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao):
On Friday 6 May, 2011 05:20:28 Sander wrote:
Can you post the error?
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 (2.6.38-3) ...
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'.
run-parts:
Hallo, Cacook,
Du meintest am 06.05.11:
I can't reboot at this point, as on this machine I started a
'balance' through ssh on another machine, and it's been running for
over 12 hours. It does not respond to ^C and I'm afraid to reboot
with it running.
That's a behaviour which was described
Same old problem.
On Friday 6 May, 2011 06:21:58 Sander wrote:
Can you try:
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_1.99~rc1-13_amd64.deb
apt-get dist-upgrade
# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_1.99~rc1-13_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 135273 files and directories currently
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao):
# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_1.99~rc1-13_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 135273 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13 (using
.../grub-pc_1.99~rc1-13_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement grub-pc ...
On Friday 6 May, 2011 07:17:00 you wrote:
Hm. Just do cp /bin/true /usr/sbin/grub-probe
Yikes, it came up with an ncurses screen saying:
GRUB failed to install to the following devices:
│
│
On Friday 6 May, 2011 07:58:47 you wrote:
Say 'yes', try to finish your upgrade.
Now when I ran it, it went as normal for some reason.
Then:
grub-install /dev/sda
Auto-detection of a filesystem of failed.
Please report this together with the output of /usr/sbin/grub-probe
On Friday 6 May, 2011 08:15:25 cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I'm afraid to reboot though, because yesterday I started a btrfs fi balance
on this machine while sshed to another, and that is still running 15 hours
later with no indication of progress nor sign of abating. ^C is ineffective.
Anyone here?
On Friday 6 May, 2011 10:09:29 cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Friday 6 May, 2011 08:15:25 cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I'm afraid to reboot though, because yesterday I started a btrfs fi balance
on this machine while sshed to another, and that is still running 15 hours
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:04:28PM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
Anyone here?
Could you create link from you root parition to /dev/root and try again?
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cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao):
Wow. I was very nearly completely screwed. I went ahead and
rebooted, but grub.cfg was not set up at all. I had no way to run
update-grub on that root, and so tried manually filling in the
missing parameters. That didn't work, probably through the
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I don't understand this.
Clearly. Please continue the discussion in a debian or grub forum..
It really has nothing to do with btrfs.
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On Friday 6 May, 2011 13:51:37 Peter Stuge wrote:
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I don't understand this.
Clearly. Please continue the discussion in a debian or grub forum..
It really has nothing to do with btrfs.
No thanks. This is a BTRFS problem, and if you people don't want to face it,
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).
# update-grub -v
grub-mkconfig (GRUB) 1.99~rc1-13
#
It's still BTRFS incompatibility.
Either that, or maybe something has broken in your many attempts to
solve the
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
Clearly. Please continue the discussion in a debian or grub forum..
It really has nothing to do with btrfs.
No thanks. This is a BTRFS problem, and if you people don't want to
face it, that's fine.
A problem that happens when you use btrfs is not
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 02:20:48PM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I'm tearing out BTRFS and using another filesystem.
I think this is probably a good conclusion for you. I would
strongly suggest you pick something reliable (like ext3 or ext4) for
your future needs. Picking an
Hugo Mills wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 02:20:48PM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I'm tearing out BTRFS and using another filesystem.
I think this is probably a good conclusion for you. I would
strongly suggest you pick something reliable (like ext3 or ext4) for
your future
On May 6, 2011 4:20 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Friday 6 May, 2011 13:51:37 Peter Stuge wrote:
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I don't understand this.
Clearly. Please continue the discussion in a debian or grub forum..
It really has nothing to do with btrfs.
No thanks. This
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote:
On May 6, 2011 4:20 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Friday 6 May, 2011 13:51:37 Peter Stuge wrote:
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I don't understand this.
Clearly. Please continue the discussion in a debian
On Wednesday 4 May, 2011 02:51:54 Sander wrote:
Put an exit on top of /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub and try again.
Install grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13 from Sid.
First I put an exit right after #! /bin/sh and it failed. Then I moved
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub to / and it still
Anyone have a suggestion?
Also on another machine set up similarly, I now cannot mkdir. It says 'no
space left on device'. df says:
# df /dev/sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 3907029168 2658010524 1246486516 69% /home
sdb and sdc
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
Anyone have a suggestion?
Also on another machine set up similarly, I now cannot mkdir. It says 'no
space left on device'. df says:
# df /dev/sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:49 AM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Wednesday 4 May, 2011 02:51:54 Sander wrote:
Put an exit on top of /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub and try again.
Install grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13 from Sid.
First I put an exit right after #! /bin/sh and it failed. Then I
I was afraid of this finger-pointing.
Of course no one at Debian is going to know how to fix BTRFS jamming the
package management system. That's ridiculous.
It's starting to look like BTRFS is just busted in Debian, and I'll have to
reinstall everything over a different filesystem. I hate
Excerpts from CACook's message of 2011-05-05 15:50:02 -0400:
I was afraid of this finger-pointing.
We're not finger pointing, but we also don't maintain the script that is
failing. I'm happy to patch up bugs in the FS (or point you to newer
kernels that have them fixed) but at this point we
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:50 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I was afraid of this finger-pointing.
Of course no one at Debian is going to know how to fix BTRFS jamming the
package management system. That's ridiculous.
I took the liberty of asking #debian, and they've requested that you
Here is the relevant section of strace:
-
chmod(/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme.dpkg-new, 0755) = 0
unlink(/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme.dpkg-new) = 0
stat(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819,
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
Here is the relevant section of strace:
BTW, I fixed the 'no space left on device' on the other machine with a btrfs
balance. No one seems to know this, but even though df reports that 64% of
the disk array is used, apparently
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:31:17 cwillu wrote:
I took the liberty of asking #debian, and they've requested that you
file a bug in their bug tracker. They've also suggested that you
might be able to short-circuit the faulty script in their kernel
package via an exit 0, or even replace the
On to, 2011-05-05 at 13:57 -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:31:17 cwillu wrote:
I took the liberty of asking #debian, and they've requested that you
file a bug in their bug tracker. They've also suggested that you
might be able to short-circuit the faulty
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:57 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:31:17 cwillu wrote:
I took the liberty of asking #debian, and they've requested that you
file a bug in their bug tracker. They've also suggested that you
might be able to short-circuit the faulty script
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:40:25 cwillu wrote:
Could you include the information I asked for previously? (Kernel
version, output of btrfs fi df and btrfs fi show)
Kernel 2.6.37-2
# btrfs fi df /home
Data, RAID0: total=2.61TB, used=2.47TB
Data: total=8.00MB, used=8.00MB
System, RAID1:
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:59:23 Lars Wirzenius wrote:
dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar -C / -tf -
I was expecting this to extract into the local directory, although it seems to
have extracted into the final destinations. Can't be sure. grub-setup -V
gives the new version.
change -t to
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:40 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:40:25 cwillu wrote:
Could you include the information I asked for previously? (Kernel
version, output of btrfs fi df and btrfs fi show)
Kernel 2.6.37-2
# btrfs fi df /home
Data, RAID0: total=2.61TB,
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:59:23 Lars Wirzenius wrote:
dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar -C / -tf -
I was expecting this to extract into the local directory, although it seems
to have extracted into the final destinations. Can't
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 14:48:49 cwillu wrote:
How old was the filesystem? It might just have been lingering
problems from an older kernel, which would be cleared up entirely by
the balance you just ran.
I specifically set up the filesystem with the Live CD of the M- release of
Ubuntu, so as
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Thursday 5 May, 2011 14:48:49 cwillu wrote:
How old was the filesystem? It might just have been lingering
problems from an older kernel, which would be cleared up entirely by
the balance you just ran.
I specifically set up
Hallo, Cacook,
Du meintest am 05.05.11:
I took all pains to be using the newest OS available to set up the
disks, so as to take advantage of WD's Advanced Format, and the
newest improvements to BTRFS. But the balance is still going after
more than an hour.
Where's the problem? Balancing 4
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao):
I would be happy to upgrade grub, but the package management system is
jammed because of this.
Put an exit on top of /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub and try again.
Install grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13 from Sid.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:27 AM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
Having a failure that may be because grub2 doesn't BTRFS. /boot is ext3 and
/ is BTRFS.
Does Debian (or whatever distro you use) support BTRFS /?
If yes, you should ask them.
If no, then you should've already known that there's a
On Tuesday 3 May, 2011 14:26:52 Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Does Debian (or whatever distro you use) support BTRFS /?
If yes, you should ask them.
What do you mean 'does Debian support BTRFS'? The kernel supports it. And why
would they know more about BTRFS than you?
My whole system is
On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 05:20:49 PM cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
-snip-
I would be happy to upgrade grub, but the package management system is
jammed because of this.
-snip-
You should Re-read the error you posted. The package management system goes
bonkers, because
/usr/sbin/grub-probe:
I know what the error says; we've established that / is in fact mounted. The
system boots and runs, but grub doesn't understand it. My only answer is that
grub-probe does not understand BTRFS.
The question is what to do about this. I have three major systems committed to
this filesystem.
On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 07:12:42 PM cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I know what the error says; we've established that / is in fact mounted.
The system boots and runs, but grub doesn't understand it. My only answer
is that grub-probe does not understand BTRFS.
The question is what to do
On 04/05/11 08:20, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
My whole system is installed over BTRFS. If this is
non-functional in any OS there should be a warning
indicating it is non-functional.
The text for btrfs in the kernel configuration says:
Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:20 AM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
On Tuesday 3 May, 2011 14:26:52 Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Does Debian (or whatever distro you use) support BTRFS /?
If yes, you should ask them.
What do you mean 'does Debian support BTRFS'? The kernel supports it.
Just because
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