Meta data corruption - can't boot!

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Hi,

When I try to start my computer I get a message saying (among other things):

systemd-fstab-generator: Failed to create mount unit file
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type “journalctl-xb” to view system logs… <snip: several other options>…

After I type systemctl-default, I receive the following output:

Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory…
XFS (sda3) Metadata corruption detectyed at _write_verify+0xda/0xf0 [xfs], block 0x8826a70
XFS (sda3) Umount and run xfs_repair
<snip>
XFS (sda3) Corruption of in-memory data detecte. Shutting down filesystem
XFS (sda3) Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s).

When I installed opensuse, I went with the recommended partition setup, that is my /home partition is using XFS, and / uses BTRFS.

Any advice on how to proceed?
(I don’t know the commands for how to umount and run the xfs_repair, so much appreciated if you can “spell it out” or point me to where I can read more).

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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:46:01 +0000, Brahma-Vihara wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I try to start my computer I get a message saying (among other
> things):
>
>
>> systemd-fstab-generator: Failed to create mount unit file Welcome to
>> emergency mode! After logging in, type “journalctl-xb” to view system
>> logs… <snip: several other options>…
>>
>>
> After I type systemctl-default, I receive the following output:
>
>
>> Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or
>> directory…
>> XFS (sda3) Metadata corruption detectyed at _write_verify+0xda/0xf0
>> [xfs], block 0x8826a70 XFS (sda3) Umount and run xfs_repair <snip>
>> XFS (sda3) Corruption of in-memory data detecte. Shutting down
>> filesystem XFS (sda3) Please umount the filesystem and rectify the
>> problem(s).
>>
>>
> When I installed opensuse, I went with the recommended partition setup,
> that is my /home partition is using XFS, and / uses BTRFS.
>
> Any advice on how to proceed?
> (I don’t know the commands for how to umount and run the xfs_repair, so
> much appreciated if you can “spell it out” or point me to where I can
> read more).


umount /dev/sda3
xfs_repair

should be what you need to do.

Jim

Jim Henderson
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Thanks Jim, problem solved rotfl!

If it might be of any help for others, here is what I did.

umount /dev/sda3 –> I got me a message saying that it wasn’t mounted.
xfs_repair –> I got a list of options to use.
xfs_repair -v /dev/sda3 –> the -v option = verbose output from scan. The output said that if I couldn’t mount the filesystem, I should delete the metadata in the log file.
xfs_repair -L /dev/sda3 –> I deleted the log file by using the -L option.
xfs_repair /dev/sda3 –> repaired the metadata.

After that I rebooted.