From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evan LeCompte Subject: Re: FS won't mount, open_ctree failed, Assertion !(path->slots[0] == 0) failed Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:56:34 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20111223181542.GU19266@shiny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111223181542.GU19266@shiny> List-ID: On 12/23/2011 06:15 PM, Chris Mason wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:37:28AM +0000, Evan LeCompte wrote: >> I'm having the very same issue as you. I've tried all the latest btrfs tools, >> btrfsck, btrfs-zero-log, restore, find-root etc etc. >> >> All to no avail. only err output is always >> >> "" btrfs_find_last_root: Assertion `!(path->slots[0] == 0)' failed. "" >> >> This is a very cryptic error that doesn't tell me anything. and it seems to be >> the only error that is ever thrown when transaction id's get out of sync. >> >> Is there ANY way to even recover ANY files at all from these btrfs filesystems >> that lose transid sync? mine occurred simply from a loose sata cable falling out >> of one of my drives while the system was running. >> >> This is extremely frustrating, but I guess I have no one to blame but myself. I >> do have a backup but its about a month old (my cron backup script died for some >> reason and I didn't notice). So I'm faced with losing a months worth of work :( >> >> Please help us, anyone! > > Which kernel are you running? If you're on a 3.2 kernel or you have a > recent pull of my git tree, you can try mount -o recovery. > > My guess is that your machine went down pretty quickly after the loose > sata cable fell out? In that case mount -o recovery should work. > > Otherwise we can work through the copy out recovery tools. > > -chris > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I'm running on a ubuntu 11.10 livecd with kernel 3.0.0 Downloaded your latest git tree but mount -o recovery failed Is there anythng else I can do? I suppose I could try and build a livecd with kernel 3.2 on it but thats pretty damn new so I'd have to engineer one from scratch or have another linux installation somewhere... -- -- Evan LeCompte