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Tony0945
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 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:14 am Post subject: /dev/root question |
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In LTS kernels 4.4 and 4.14 root '/' is mounted on /dev/sda3 and e4defrag works.
On later kernels 4.17 and 4/18 root is mounted on /dev/root and e4dfrag just prints its version number and exit.
Also: | Code: | MSI tony # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 228G 155G 61G 72% /
devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 1.4M 1.6G 1% /run
cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
shm 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 1007M 66M 890M 7% /boot
tmpfs 12G 0 12G 0% /var/tmp/portage
/dev/sdb1 1.9T 1.1T 773G 59% /video
MSI tony # ls -alh /dev/root
ls: cannot access '/dev/root': No such file or directory
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Can anyone shed light on this and what I can do about it other than sticking to earlier kernels? |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:37 am Post subject: |
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what does "readlink /dev/root" return?
also what does "mount -v" show?
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:30 am Post subject: |
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You probably need to change this:
| /etc/conf.d/udev-trigger: |
# We can create a /dev/root symbolic link to point to the root device in
# some situations. This is on by default because some software relies on
# it,. However, this software should be fixed to not do this.
# For more information, see
# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438380.
# If you are not using any affected software, you do not need this, so
# feel free to turn it off.
#rc_dev_root_symlink="YES" |
Also, /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts if it isn't already. |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | MSI tony # readlink /dev/root
MSI tony # |
| Code: | MSI ~ # mount -v
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=2044379,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nodev,relatime,size=1642532k,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup_root on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
openrc on /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib64/rc/sh/cgroup-release-agent.sh,name=openrc)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr,acl)
tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=12582912k,nr_inodes=1048576)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sdb1 on /video type jfs (rw,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /home/tony/.gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1002,group_id=1002) |
| Code: | ~ # ls -l /etc/conf.d/udev-trigger
ls: cannot access '/etc/conf.d/udev-trigger': No such file or directory
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This is eudev 1.10
| Code: | MSI ~ # ls -l /etc/mtab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 12 2015 /etc/mtab -> /proc/self/mounts |
I can fix this by adding "ln -s /dev/sda3 /dev/root" to /etc/local.d/000.start and then e4defrag works again. I found this in a nine year old forum post, but it's a bit kludgy. I have to remember to change this if I rearrange the disk or move the installation. Besides, it works fine in latest 4.4 and 4.14 What changed in later kernels? A bug? Apparently, according to the old post, the kernel creates /dev/root as a link to the ramdisk while booting and should remove it later. A kernel bug? Or a new setting that I took by default? |
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Anon-E-moose
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:03 am Post subject: |
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I'm a little confused. You don't have /dev/root but some packages expect it?
Nothing should expect it (not that it hurts to be there), but from the little looking I did every time there was a question with it, it dealt with initrd or similar.
How do you start your system?
And if you really need it, for whatever reason, I believe that Ant.P pointed out /etc/conf.d/udev* has a setting for it so you don't have to do it manually, just uncomment it.
Note: on older udevs it's under /etc/conf.d/udev not udev-trigger.
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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I do have /dev/root, if I boot 4.17.x or 4.18.x
If I boot 4.4.x or 4.14.x I don't.
Nothing expects it and it interferes with some programs, unless I siymlink it.
I boot without an initramfs using grub legacy.
| Code: | default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Stable (4.18.19-gentoo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.19-gentoo root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x365 net.ifnames=0
title=Gentoo EOL (4.17.19-gentoo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.17.19-gentoo root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x365 net.ifnames=0
title=Gentoo LongTerm (4.14.81-gentoo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.14.81-gentoo root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x365 net.ifnames=0
title=Gentoo LongTerm (4.4.163-gentoo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.163-gentoo root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x365 net.ifnames=0
title=memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Try this and see if there's a /dev/root on disk:
| Code: | mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo && mount -o bind / /mnt/gentoo
ls -l /mnt/gentoo/dev/
umount /mnt/gentoo |
It might be picking it up from the disk filesystem early at boot, before /dev gets mounted over and renders it invisible. Just a guess. |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | Try this and see if there's a /dev/root on disk:
| Code: | mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo && mount -o bind / /mnt/gentoo
ls -l /mnt/gentoo/dev/
umount /mnt/gentoo |
It might be picking it up from the disk filesystem early at boot, before /dev gets mounted over and renders it invisible. Just a guess. |
No /dev/root
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907634 especially message #10
ETA: is /dev/root listed in /proc/self/mounts
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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I have to admit I'm pretty lost here. So to sum up:
- There's nothing in the bootloader config to suggest it's feeding weird paths to the kernel (cat /proc/cmdline would verify this, but I don't expect a surprise)
- We know the only filesystems involved are the disk and devtmpfs, because there's no initramfs
- There's no /dev/root to be found in the filesystem, except when you created it after the fact as a workaround
- /etc/mtab is correctly pointing to /proc/self/mounts
- /proc/self/mounts (and the `mount` command, which should produce near-identical output anyway) is claiming that / is mounted on a /dev/root which shouldn't exist
Are you running on old openrc/eudev versions, by any chance? That's about the only other thing I can think of at this point. |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | | Are you running on old openrc/eudev versions, by any chance? That's about the only other thing I can think of at this point. |
Yes, eudev-1.10 , but if that was the problem why are the latest 4.4 and 4.14 LTS kernels running correctly? |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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That explains why e4defrag prints the version and exits.
Still wondering where the /dev/root is coming from.
Did a meld on kernel .configs but noting there to remotely account for it.
I've put the link in local startup but I should really check for kernel version before doing so.
Going to build 4.19 and see what it does. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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On one of the systems where /dev/root is there, post the result of "cat /etc/mtab"
*hmm* https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/message/0febf7851333595045e20fc4186a7f79 (look for /dev/root)
The other thing I noticed when googling various combination to see what was going on, is that sometime after 4.14, the kernel quit using sys_open in favor of ksys_open, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Anon-E-moose wrote: | On one of the systems where /dev/root is there, post the result of "cat /etc/mtab"
*hmm* https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/message/0febf7851333595045e20fc4186a7f79 (look for /dev/root)
The other thing I noticed when googling various combination to see what was going on, is that sometime after 4.14, the kernel quit using sys_open in favor of ksys_open, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. |
cat /etc/mtab This from 4.19.2 |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Anon-E-moose wrote: | On one of the systems where /dev/root is there, post the result of "cat /etc/mtab"
*hmm* https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/message/0febf7851333595045e20fc4186a7f79 (look for /dev/root)
The other thing I noticed when googling various combination to see what was going on, is that sometime after 4.14, the kernel quit using sys_open in favor of ksys_open, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. |
Oh God! He is messing with the kernel now. I'll try vanilla-4.19.2 and see what happens. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony0945 wrote: | | Anon-E-moose wrote: | On one of the systems where /dev/root is there, post the result of "cat /etc/mtab"
*hmm* https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/message/0febf7851333595045e20fc4186a7f79 (look for /dev/root)
The other thing I noticed when googling various combination to see what was going on, is that sometime after 4.14, the kernel quit using sys_open in favor of ksys_open, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. |
Oh God! He is messing with the kernel now. I'll try vanilla-4.19.2 and see what happens. |
Interestingly enough that post goes back to 2013 and the last comment was from 2016, where there were still periodic problems.
One of the devs, made a comment that it seemed to be a bug from the kernel itself, causing it.
If so, it's probably one of those race conditions that only get triggered when the conditions are right.
I tend to think he might be right and it's a kernel bug, /dev/root shouldn't exist especially when the kernel is started with a proper root= parm.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| vanilla-19.2 still has dev/root When I edited ksys_open to sys_open, it made no difference. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | /dev/root is a generic device which can be used in the fstab. One can also use 'rootfs'. Doing this offers some advantage in that it allows yout to be less specific. What I mean is, if the root partition is on an external drive, it may not always show up as the same device and successfully mounting it as / would require changing the fstab to match the correct device. By using /dev/root it will always match whatever device is specified in the kernel boot paramters from lilo or grub.
/dev/root has always been present as a virtual mount point, even if you never saw it. So has rootfs (compare this to the special virtual devices like proc and tmpfs which have no preceeding /dev)
/dev/root is a virtual device like 'proc' or /dev/tcp'. There is no device node in /dev for these things -it's already in the kernel as a virtual device. |
From a discussion https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17563/find-out-what-device-dev-root-represents-in-linux/17566
Now, WHY it's showing up is the mystery.
ETA: I'm still running 4.14 though I intend to move up to 4.19 soon, I just hadn't wanted to mess with it today. I'll keep an eye after I update to see what shows.
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Temporarily adding the following to /etc/local.d/000.start
| Code: | #fix root mount
KSERIES=" `uname -r | cut -f 3|cut -d . -f2`"
if [ $KSERIES > 14 ]; then
ln -s /dev/sda3 /dev/root
fi
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| Problem just appeared in 4.14.90-gentoo, wasn't there in 4.14.88-gentoo |
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