----- Forwarded message from Curtis Shimamoto <sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> ----- > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:50:16 -0700 > From: Curtis Shimamoto <sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] systemd 207 and btrfs > > On 09/18/13 at 08:31pm, Jameson wrote: > > I upgraded to systemd 207 today, and upon reboot received several > > messages that say, "failed to open /dev/btrfs-control skipping device > > registration: No such file or directory." The btrfs problem faq > > suggests that running "mknod /dev/btrfs-control c 10 234" should fix > > me up. However, when I run this it says that it already exists. The > > only significant changes that I made were to upgrade systemd, and add > > the systemd hook to mkinicpio.conf. I tried booting from external > > media, and removing the systemd hook, but after re-running mkinitcpio > > I still get the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions for > > getting past this? > > > > I will happily provide more information if you can tell me what would > > be helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > =-Jameson > > I think you probably meant to send this to [arch-general], not [aur-general]. So > I am going to send this to both… we'll see where it goes. > > Your btrfs filesystem must span more than one device, yes? I too was having > this problem with a multidevice btrfs filesystem, but ran into it a while back > since I use [testing]. > > I thought it must have been something I screwed up, so since data was in > 'single' anyway (different size devices), I decided to just convert it to use > just one disk. I had meant to debug it later, but forgot about it shortly > thereafter, and didn't even remember to do that until I saw this email. > > It was definitely the lack of /dev/btrfs-control that was causing the failure > though, as I was getting that error message. I recall checking immediately > after getting the message and seeing that /dev/btrfs-control was indeed there. > So maybe this is some kind of a race condition? > > This is just a shot in the dark, but what if you were to put the necessary > modules for btrfs in mkinitcpio.conf's MODULES list to have it loaded explicitly > and early? > > -- > Curtis Shimamoto > sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com Whoops, forgot to CC arch-general like I said I would… ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com
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