Kernel 7.2, BTRFS issues?

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Ran the latest upgrades, including 7.2.0-1-default with dup and found out I couldn’t run flatpak update anymore.

There were no issues with the upgrade, the system booted fine.

The error it was giving was roughly (after guessing from half-localized error):
Warning: Error pulling from repo: syncfs(repo): Structure needs cleaning

After guessing around with an LLM, it was suggested to be a kernel related error instead directly linked to flatpak, and I did find a large amount of btrfs errors in the system logs:

[Mon Aug 31 13:53:11 2026] [  T31862] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:16 2026] [  T38052] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:21 2026] [  T41042] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:26 2026] [  T40022] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:31 2026] [  T38674] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:36 2026] [  T34507] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:42 2026] [  T38052] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:47 2026] [  T39370] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Mon Aug 31 13:53:52 2026] [  T38052] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p2): root 1368 ino 231048 folio 94060544 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap

Tried checking the filesystem, no errors. The only thing “broken” seemed to be a single file. /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/Index.db

Since there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with the filesystem or drive, I removed the file and refresh zypper.

The error is now gone, but just thought I would bring this up, since this is a new occurrence and coincides with a new kernel version.

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That is the rpm database, best rebuild it with rpm --rebuilddb

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Same thing just happened on a second system…

[Thu Sep  3 20:33:39 2026] [  T31112] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p3): root 1391 ino 231910 folio 4980736 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Thu Sep  3 20:33:53 2026] [    T600] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p3): root 1391 ino 231910 folio 4980736 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Thu Sep  3 20:33:54 2026] [    T600] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p3): root 1391 ino 231910 folio 4980736 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Thu Sep  3 20:33:54 2026] [    T600] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p3): root 1391 ino 231910 folio 4980736 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Thu Sep  3 20:34:25 2026] [    T139] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p3): root 1391 ino 231910 folio 4980736 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
[Thu Sep  3 20:34:55 2026] [    T568] BTRFS error (device nvme1n1p3): root 1391 ino 231910 folio 4980736 is fixup with an empty fixup bitmap
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Sorry, couldn’t edit the above. The file in question on the second system is also the same as with the first one.

ID 1391 gen 313801 top level 264 path @/.snapshots/1123/snapshot

sudo find /.snapshots/1123/snapshot -xdev -inum 231910
/.snapshots/1123/snapshot/usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/Index.db

I can’t be the only one encountering this?