On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please report any issues that arise. I have an interesting problem on my laptop: about 1 in 3 times during boot, the initrd fails to find the root file system, which is located on LVM. I'm quite sure that this started after upgrading to linux 3.5.0-1 Booting via EFI on Dell Latitude E6410, disks configured in AHCI mode, x86_64, using systemd. Root FS is not encrypted, but I'm using /etc/crypttab for other file systems Kernel command line: /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/larcvg-larc--root ro quiet Output during failed boot: No volume groups found [ ... waits some seconds ... ] ERROR: device '/dev/mapper/larcvg-larc--root' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/mapper/larcvg-larc--root'. You are being dropped to a recovery shell ... /dev/mapper is empty, but when I run 'lvm vgchange -a y' then all devices successfully appear. /etc/mkinitcpio.conf: MODULES="ahci ext4 dm-crypt aesni-intel" BINARIES="" FILES="" HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata lvm2 filesystems usbinput fsck" There aren't any obvious causes in dmesg output either. There are some differences in EFI stuff, SATA disks are discovered in a slightly different order and there's an additional message "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." during a successful boot. Here's a diff of dmesg (timestamps removed): --- dmesg_failed 2012-08-01 21:21:00.711241065 +0300 +++ dmesg_success 2012-08-01 21:21:03.137946066 +0300 @@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ efi: mem11: type=1, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7a79000-0x00000000d7a97000) (0MB) efi: mem12: type=7, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7a97000-0x00000000d7aa3000) (0MB) efi: mem13: type=2, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7aa3000-0x00000000d7ab5000) (0MB) - efi: mem14: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ab5000-0x00000000d7ab9000) (0MB) - efi: mem15: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ab9000-0x00000000d7aca000) (0MB) - efi: mem16: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7aca000-0x00000000d7acb000) (0MB) - efi: mem17: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7acb000-0x00000000d7ad7000) (0MB) - efi: mem18: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ad7000-0x00000000d7adc000) (0MB) - efi: mem19: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7adc000-0x00000000d7ade000) (0MB) - efi: mem20: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ade000-0x00000000d7ae3000) (0MB) + efi: mem14: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ab5000-0x00000000d7ab6000) (0MB) + efi: mem15: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ab6000-0x00000000d7ab7000) (0MB) + efi: mem16: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ab7000-0x00000000d7ab8000) (0MB) + efi: mem17: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ab8000-0x00000000d7acb000) (0MB) + efi: mem18: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7acb000-0x00000000d7acd000) (0MB) + efi: mem19: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7acd000-0x00000000d7ad8000) (0MB) + efi: mem20: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ad8000-0x00000000d7ae3000) (0MB) efi: mem21: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ae3000-0x00000000d7ae4000) (0MB) efi: mem22: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ae4000-0x00000000d7ae5000) (0MB) efi: mem23: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x00000000d7ae5000-0x00000000d7ae6000) (0MB) @@ -519,8 +519,9 @@ please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups hpet clockevent registered Fast TSC calibration using PIT - Detected 2660.066 MHz processor. - Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 5322.80 BogoMIPS (lpj=8866886) + spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. + Detected 2660.038 MHz processor. + Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 5322.74 BogoMIPS (lpj=8866793) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 init_memory_mapping: [mem 0xdb400000-0xdbffffff] [mem 0xdb400000-0xdbffffff] page 2M @@ -570,7 +571,7 @@ CPU3: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 Brought up 4 CPUs - Total of 4 processors activated (21289.21 BogoMIPS). + Total of 4 processors activated (21288.98 BogoMIPS). devtmpfs: initialized PM: Registering ACPI NVS region [mem 0xdb27f000-0xdb36efff] (983040 bytes) NET: Registered protocol family 16 @@ -916,7 +917,7 @@ software IO TLB [mem 0xd3936000-0xd7935fff] (64MB) mapped at [ffff8800d3936000-ffff8800d7935fff] Simple Boot Flag at 0xf1 set to 0x1 audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) - type=2000 audit(1343844854.319:1): initialized + type=2000 audit(1343845089.366:1): initialized HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) @@ -950,13 +951,13 @@ cpuidle: using governor menu drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service TCP: cubic registered - input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0 NET: Registered protocol family 10 NET: Registered protocol family 17 + input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0 Key type dns_resolver registered PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. registered taskstats version 1 - rtc_cmos 00:06: setting system clock to 2012-08-01 18:14:15 UTC (1343844855) + rtc_cmos 00:06: setting system clock to 2012-08-01 18:18:10 UTC (1343845090) Freeing unused kernel memory: 756k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 8192k Freeing unused kernel memory: 1504k freed @@ -982,9 +983,9 @@ ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf6940000 port 0xf6940300 irq 40 ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf6940000 port 0xf6940380 irq 40 ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) - ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) - ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) + ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) + ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04) ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD3200BEKT-75PVMT0, 01.01A01, max UDMA/133 ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA @@ -1034,5 +1035,181 @@ usb 2-1.7: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd usb 2-1.8: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd usb 2-1.8: config 0 descriptor?? ---- Regards, Marti