can't boot F19 system

Fri Mar 21 00:11:58 UTC 2014

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>wrote:

>
> On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:08 PM, pgaltieri . <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What do you get for
> > smartctl -x /dev/sda
> >
> >
> > Here's the link
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=K76mJvZKSG0mr5pSoDGM7k
>
> No obvious problems there. I'm suspicious about the many device ready not
> ready transitions in the phy event counter.
> >
> > So I unplugged the hub after making sure no drives were mounted and
> rebooted.  Guess what?  I'm now back to the emergency mode prompt.  If I
> boot off an older kernel I again get the emergency mode prompt.  What was
> working fine earlier no longer works.
> >
> > Here's the shutdown log
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=-h_XGxyZT-ws_rNy16Jr0g
> >
> > This system has been running Linux since December and I've never had as
> much trouble with it as I have had these last few days.  Arggggghhhhh!!!!!
>
> 1.
> [   18.334181] systemd[1]: boot-efi.mount mount process exited,
> code=exited status=0
> [   18.334187] systemd[1]: boot-efi.mount changed mounting -> mounted
>
> OK so you re-enabled the mounting of /boot/efi and no longer get unknown
> filesystem type 'vfat' apparently.
>
>

The latest kernel loads the fat and vfat modules.

> 2.
>
> Like I said before this device has major file system problems. Because
> it's in your fstab, and fails to mount, you are dropped to emergency shell.
> *Any* volume in fstab that fails to mount at boot time causes the system to
> behave this way. Use nofail mount option otherwise.
>
>
>

When I run fsck on the disk it comes back clean.  I think the problem may
have been the entry in fstab.  The entry is:

labeL=NEWDATA2 /media/NEWDATA2 ext4 defaults,nodev.noexec,nosuid,.....

it should be:

LABEL=NEWDATA2 /media/NEWDATA2 ext4 defaults,nodev.noexec,nosuid,.....

>
> [   19.400333] systemd[1]: Child 382 died (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> [   19.400335] systemd[1]: Child 382 belongs to media-NEWDATA2.mount
> [   19.400340] systemd[1]: media-NEWDATA2.mount mount process exited,
> code=exited status=1
> [   19.401392] systemd[1]: media-NEWDATA2.mount changed mounting -> failed
>
>
>
I fixed the fstab entry and mounted it, I get:

EXT4-fs (sdb1) mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts (null)

When I do

umount /media/NEWDATA2

I get

systemd[1]: Unit media-NEWDATA2.mount entered failed state.

It does unmount the disk

>
> 3.
>
> What is this watchdog?
> [   54.033972] systemd[1]: Shutting down.
> [   54.050617] systemd[1]: Hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt', version 0
> [   54.052299] systemd[1]: Set hardware watchdog to 10min.
> [   54.054024] watchdog watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
>
>
>
>
I have no idea.  But I'm starting to suspect hardware issues with the usb
ports.  If I plug my usb 3.0 hub in two of the usb ports the system only
sees one of the 4 drives plugged into the hub.  If I plug it into a third
usb port then it sees all 4 drives.  Then there's the issue with the usb
mouse constantly disconnecting and reconnecting.

The system dual boots windows 8.1 and Linux, though by default it boots to
Linux.  When I try the same experiment with the usb hub under Windows I see
the same behaviour.

So I booted the system without any drives attached and the system came up
fine.  I plugged the usb hub in with 4 drives and all 4 drives were
mounted.  What's strange, and this does not happen on any other F19 system
I have, when I right click on any of the drive icons on the desktop and
select "Safely Remove Drive" the system unmounts the drive and then
immediately remounts it.  And 3 of these drives are not in /etc/fstab.

Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages

Mar 20 16:52:28 peglaptopnew udisksd[3362]: Cleaning up mount point
/run/media/pgaltieri/OLDSYSBACKUPS2 (device 8:65 is not mounted)  <== I
don't understand this message
Mar 20 16:52:28 peglaptopnew ntfs-3g[5276]: Unmounting /dev/sde1
(OLDSYSBACKUPS2)
Mar 20 16:52:28 peglaptopnew udisksd[3362]: Unmounted /dev/sde1 on behalf
of uid 1000
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.569779] sd 14:0:0:0: [sde]
Synchronizing SCSI cache
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.573672] usb 3-2.1.2: USB
disconnect, device number 14
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew systemd-udevd[6431]: inotify_add_watch(7,
/dev/sde1, 10) failed: No such file or directory
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.893887] usb 3-2.1.2: new
SuperSpeed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.906021] usb 3-2.1.2: New USB
device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=2312
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.906028] usb 3-2.1.2: New USB
device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.906032] usb 3-2.1.2: Product:
Expansion
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.906035] usb 3-2.1.2:
Manufacturer: Seagate
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.906038] usb 3-2.1.2:
SerialNumber: NA47TGJ2
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.907974] usb-storage
3-2.1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew kernel: [  659.908615] scsi15 : usb-storage
3-2.1.2:1.0
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 15:
"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2.1/3-2.1.2"
Mar 20 16:52:29 peglaptopnew mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 15 was not an MTP
device
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.911256] scsi 15:0:0:0:
Direct-Access     Seagate  Expansion        0636 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.911753] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached
scsi generic sg4 type 0
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.911777] sd 15:0:0:0: [sde]
1953525167 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.912293] sd 15:0:0:0: [sde]
Write Protect is off
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.912809] sd 15:0:0:0: [sde]
Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.936653]  sde: sde1
Mar 20 16:52:30 peglaptopnew kernel: [  660.938592] sd 15:0:0:0: [sde]
Attached SCSI disk
Mar 20 16:52:31 peglaptopnew ntfs-3g[6466]: Version 2013.1.13 integrated
FUSE 27
Mar 20 16:52:31 peglaptopnew ntfs-3g[6466]: Mounted /dev/sde1 (Read-Write,
label "OLDSYSBACKUPS2", NTFS 3.1)
Mar 20 16:52:31 peglaptopnew ntfs-3g[6466]: Cmdline options:
rw,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,uhelper=udisks2
Mar 20 16:52:31 peglaptopnew ntfs-3g[6466]: Mount options:
rw,nodev,nosuid,uhelper=udisks2,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,default_permissions,fsname=/dev/sde1,blkdev,blksize=4096
Mar 20 16:52:31 peglaptopnew ntfs-3g[6466]: Global ownership and
permissions enforced, configuration type 1
Mar 20 16:52:31 peglaptopnew udisksd[3362]: Mounted /dev/sde1 at
/run/media/pgaltieri/OLDSYSBACKUPS2 on behalf of uid 1000

The above is with an NTFS drive.  The following is with a EXT4 drive

Mar 20 16:59:18 peglaptopnew udisksd[3362]: Cleaning up mount point
/media/NEWDATA2 (device 8:49 is not mounted)
Mar 20 16:59:18 peglaptopnew udisksd[3362]: Unmounted /dev/sdd1 on behalf
of uid 1000
Mar 20 16:59:18 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.020893] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdd]
Synchronizing SCSI cache
Mar 20 16:59:18 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.023310] usb 3-2.1.1: USB
disconnect, device number 16
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.346875] usb 3-2.1.1: new
SuperSpeed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.358507] usb 3-2.1.1: New USB
device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=a013
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.358514] usb 3-2.1.1: New USB
device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.358518] usb 3-2.1.1: Product:
Backup+ BL
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.358521] usb 3-2.1.1:
Manufacturer: Seagate
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.358524] usb 3-2.1.1:
SerialNumber: NA51YTYZ
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.359879] usb-storage
3-2.1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1069.359925] scsi17 : usb-storage
3-2.1.1:1.0
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 17:
"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2.1/3-2.1.1"
Mar 20 16:59:19 peglaptopnew mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 17 was not an MTP
device
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.362970] scsi 17:0:0:0:
Direct-Access     Seagate  Backup+ BL       0409 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.363368] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdd]
1953525167 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.363433] sd 17:0:0:0: Attached
scsi generic sg3 type 0
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.363617] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdd]
Write Protect is off
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.363874] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdd]
Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.397880]  sdd: sdd1
Mar 20 16:59:20 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1070.398893] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdd]
Attached SCSI disk
Mar 20 16:59:21 peglaptopnew kernel: [ 1071.146659] EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Mar 20 16:59:21 peglaptopnew udisksd[3362]: Mounted /dev/sdd1 (system) at
/media/NEWDATA2 on behalf of uid 1000

With the behaviour the way it is, there is no clean way to unmount these
drives.

Now on my other F19 system I tried the same test, but instead of saying
"Safely Remove Drive" it says "Unmount" and in this case it unmounts it and
does not remount, here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages.  I was
prompted for authentication when I unmounted it.

Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw dbus-daemon[637]: dbus[637]: [system] Activating
via systemd: service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' unit='fprintd.service'
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw dbus[637]: [system] Activating via systemd:
service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' unit='fprintd.service'
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication
Daemon...
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw dbus-daemon[637]: dbus[637]: [system]
Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw dbus[637]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw systemd[1]: Started Fingerprint Authentication
Daemon.
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw fprintd[27963]: Launching FprintObject
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw fprintd[27963]: ** Message: D-Bus service
launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Mar 20 17:01:48 jackstraw fprintd[27963]: ** Message: entering main loop
Mar 20 17:01:57 jackstraw udisksd[6600]: Unmounted /dev/sdc1 on behalf of
uid 1000

So how does Linux decide if a drive can be safely removed versus unmounted?

Again Chris thank you very much for your help.

Paolo

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