Re: btrfs says no errors, but booting gives lots of errors

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@bouton.name> wrote:

> Le 11/10/2015 01:02, covici@ccs.covici.com a écrit :
> > Lionel Bouton <lionel+ceph@bouton.name> wrote:
> >
> >> Le 10/10/2015 18:55, covici@ccs.covici.com a écrit :
> >>> [...]
> >>> But do you folks have any idea about my original question, this leads me
> >>> to think that btrfs is too new or something.
> >> I've seen a recent report of a problem with btrfs-progs 4.2 confirmed as
> >> a bug in mkfs. As you created the filesystem with it, it could be the
> >> problem.
> >> Note that btrfs-progs 4.2 is marked ~amd64 on Gentoo: when you live on
> >> the bleeding edge you shouldn't be surprised to bleed sometimes ;-)
> >>
> >> You might have more luck by better describing the errors. Your title
> >> mentions lots of errors, but there's only one log extract in a zip file
> >> for a filesystem being mounted and it's only a warning about lock
> >> contention which from an educated guess seems unlikely to make programs
> >> crash.
> >> I'm not familiar with the 203 exit codes you mention. This seems a
> >> systemd thing with unclear meaning from a quick Google search so it
> >> isn't really helpful unless there are kernel oops or panics for these
> >> errors too.
> > These errors are not kernel panicks, they are just that systemd units
> > are not starting and the programs that  are executed in the unit files
> > are returning these errors such as the 203 with no other explanation.  I
> > tried for instance to run /usr/bin/postgresql-9.4-check-db-dir and it
> > said that postgresql.conf was missing, but I could do an ls on that file
> > and got the name.
> 
> If you can list files and read them, your problems probably have nothing
> to do with the filesystem itself.

I don't know if the file in question had the correct data, I only did a
directory listing, but this makes no sense -- I did an rsync just before
booting and got all kinds of errors and the only difference is the file
system, this is what I am saying.

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