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Bug#748805: System fails to boot after upgrading to linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 from wheezy-backports



On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 02:01 +0200, Nils Steinger wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 05:59:18PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:31:06PM +0200, debian-bugs@voidptr.de wrote:
> > Please get a name.
> Sorry, I forgot to configure that properly.
> 
> > > On-screen output during a failed boot attempt:
> > > ------8<------
> > > Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
> > > Booting the kernel.
> > > Loading, please wait...00:03.0 C900 PCI2.10 PnP PHH+3FFC9E10+3FFB9E10 C900
> > > modprobe: can’t load module btrfs (kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko): unknown symbol in
> > > module, or unknown parameter
> > 
> > So you broke the module somehow.
> I doubt _I_ broke anything, since I installed the pre-compiled package
> from the official repository and rebooted without modifying anything
> else.
> 
> > Please use "dmesg"
> dmesg's output is several hundred lines long, which isn't exactly easy
> to read when busybox's 'more' seems to be an alias for 'cat'…
> I couldn't find any errors in the last screenful of output, the kernel
> has since panicked and the KVM's web-based control interface has locked
> up, so I can't examine the error any further at the moment. I will get
> back to you once that's fixed.

There should be a message in the kernel log telling you exactly what was
not found in btrfs.  You could run: 'dmesg | grep btrfs'.

> I also migrated another KVM system from an XFS root filesystem to btrfs
> and installed linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 — and it still boots.
> The only difference to the two non-booting systems seems to be that the
> working system has a separate (ext3-formatted) /boot partition.

This should matter only to the boot loader.  The initramfs does not
mount the /boot partition.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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