Hi, I've the same issue. The reason is /dev/root device no longer exists with modern udev (197 at least for gentoo) and the kernel reports /dev/root to be mounted as root device. So nilfs_cleanerd tries to open it and fails. The issue only takes place without initramfs, may be that's why it's not fixed yet. Possible fixes are: 1) patch kernel to report real device 2) may be there is another way to get proper device name for nilfs_cleanerd but I doubt 3a) downgrade udev (as a temporary solution) 3b) switch to eudev beta (at least for gentoo) ----------------------------- Alexandrov Sergey 2013/1/20 Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Tim, > > On Jan 20, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Tim Benham wrote: > >> After upgrading from the 3.5.0 to the 3.7.2 kernel I cannot get >> nilfs_cleanerd to start. Trying to start it causes the following lines >> to be appended to the system log. >> >> Jan 20 16:36:07 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2584]: start >> Jan 20 16:36:07 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2584]: cannot open nilfs on >> (null): No such file or directory >> Jan 20 16:36:07 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2584]: cannot create cleanerd >> on (null): No such file or directory >> Jan 20 16:36:07 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2584]: shutdown >> >> My root file system is nilfs2. Cleanerd has never started on mount. I >> worked around this by creating a local.d script that starts it. Then >> this stopped working. I was able to get it going again by modifying my >> script to create a /dev/root symlink. Now I cannot get it to start at >> all. Giving it the root device explicitly doesn't work either >> >> >> # nilfs_cleanerd /dev/sda2 >> Jan 20 16:41:19 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2648]: start >> Jan 20 16:41:19 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2648]: cannot open nilfs on >> /dev/sda2: No such file or directory >> Jan 20 16:41:19 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2648]: cannot create cleanerd >> on /dev/sda2: No such file or directory >> Jan 20 16:41:19 gigasys nilfs_cleanerd[2648]: shutdown >> # ls -l /dev/sda2 >> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Jan 20 16:18 /dev/sda2 >> >> mount -t nilfs2 -o remount /dev/sda2 / produces an identical set of messages. > > It looks like you have troubles with udev after upgrade. Could you share strace output of nilfs_cleanerd trying to start? Could you share fstab file content on your system? > > With the best regards, > Vyacheslav Dubeyko. > > >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
