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Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?



On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote:

> 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?

It's a program that is part of the systemd package.  See the manpage for
what it does.

> 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.

Can you please show your /etc/fstab file and the output of
"fdisk -l /dev/sda" ?

Cheers,
       Sven


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