Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?
Hi, folks!
Sorry about the title. I'm just addicted to movie titles from the 60s.
(-:
I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing
installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM
(lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not.
From TTY1
...
systemd-gpt-auto-generator[152]: Failed to determine partition table
type of /dev/sda: Input/output error
...
So, I checked dmesg:
From dmesg
...[ 4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine
partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error
[ 4.854298] systemd[151]:
/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator failed with
error code 1.
... and later on ...
[12650.204616] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[7555]: Failed to determine
partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error
...
I looked in the BTS and couldn't even find a package named
systemd-gpt-auto-generator, much less a bug that had been filed for it.
I guess it's a routine or function name?
The drive came originally from Lenovo (T520i) with and MSDOS parititon
table. I just used the standard partition scheme provided by the netinst
d-i (testing), so there are only /dev/sda1 and the swap partition
present. I used ext4 as the file system.
I'm also having the drive checked by smartmontools at boot time and have
received no warnings. In addition, I run "fsck -Cfat ext4" on the drive
at boot time every week with no untoward signs.
This has been happening for a couple of weeks, and I haven't seen any
odd behaviors from the system. Nevertheless, I thought I ought to check
to see if anyone thinks this is likely to indicate that I'm about to get
bit in the butt.
It would also be nice to know why I'm seeing this only on this
particular system and not on any of the other three systems with very
similar Debian testing installations on them.
Thanks!
Jape
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