For a few days now booting ends mostly in the Dracut Emergency Shell, presenting a warning that root device does not exist. I checked rsdosreport.txt and journalctl, but did not see anything that might cause this behaviour. Luckily booting with an old rescue kernel is successful…
So in rare times the boot runs successfully without any intervention from my side. Hardware did not change in the past. So I saw no need to follow hints to recreate initramfs with all available drivers. Anyway, I tried with a new initramfs but failed as well.
My failing kernels are
5.9.11-100.fc32.x86_64
5.9.10-100.fc32.x86_64
Any idea how best to proceed in case a new initramfs does not fix this issue?
I wondered if the cause might be that the root device is allocated on a SSD, but no LVM. So I additionally trimmed, what at the first sight seemed to help, but one day later the boot failed again.
smartctl does not report any errors, as far as I see it.
As long as I can boot with no errors from the rescue kernel I wonder if a hardware error might cause this behaviour.
[jojo@localhost ~]$ sudo smartctl -x /dev/sda
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.9.11-100.fc32.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: SandForce Driven SSDs
Device Model: Corsair Force LS SSD
Serial Number: 16437909000121773635
Firmware Version: S9FM02.8
User Capacity: 60,022,480,896 bytes [60.0 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Thu Dec 3 11:55:11 2020 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is: Unavailable
APM feature is: Disabled
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is: Enabled
DSN feature is: Unavailable
ATA Security is: Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]
Wt Cache Reorder: Unavailable
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 30) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate PO-R-- 100 100 050 - 0/0
5 Retired_Block_Count PO--C- 100 100 050 - 0
9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec -O--C- 100 100 000 - 3003h+00m+00.000s
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--C- 100 100 000 - 2675
162 Unknown_SandForce_Attr PO---- 067 067 000 - 123
170 Reserve_Block_Count -O---- 100 100 000 - 139
172 Erase_Fail_Count -O--C- 100 100 000 - 0
173 Unknown_SandForce_Attr ------ 100 100 000 - 1114304
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct -O--C- 100 100 000 - 1
181 Program_Fail_Count -O--C- 100 100 000 - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect -O--C- 100 100 000 - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--C- 100 100 000 - 1
194 Temperature_Celsius PO---K 070 070 000 - 30
196 Reallocated_Event_Count ------ 100 100 000 - 0
218 Unknown_SandForce_Attr ------ 100 100 000 - 0
231 SSD_Life_Left PO--C- 100 100 000 - 99
241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB -O--C- 100 100 000 - 537
242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB -O--C- 100 100 000 - 677
||||||_ K auto-keep
|||||__ C event count
||||___ R error rate
|||____ S speed/performance
||_____ O updated online
|______ P prefailure warning
General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
SMART Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
Address Access R/W Size Description
0x00 GPL,SL R/O 1 Log Directory
0x01 SL R/O 1 Summary SMART error log
0x02 SL R/O 51 Comprehensive SMART error log
0x03 GPL R/O 64 Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
0x04 GPL,SL R/O 8 Device Statistics log
0x06 SL R/O 1 SMART self-test log
0x07 GPL R/O 1 Extended self-test log
0x09 SL R/W 1 Selective self-test log
0x10 GPL R/O 1 NCQ Command Error log
0x11 GPL R/O 1 SATA Phy Event Counters log
0x30 GPL,SL R/O 9 IDENTIFY DEVICE data log
0x80-0x9f GPL,SL R/W 16 Host vendor specific log
SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (64 sectors)
No Errors Logged
SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2995 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
SCT Commands not supported
Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page Offset Size Value Flags Description
0x07 ===== = = === == Solid State Device Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x07 0x008 1 0 --- Percentage Used Endurance Indicator
|||_ C monitored condition met
||__ D supports DSN
|___ N normalized value
Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c) not supported
SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
ID Size Value Description
0x0001 2 0 Command failed due to ICRC error
0x0003 2 0 R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS
0x0004 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS
0x0006 2 0 R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS
0x0007 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS
0x0008 2 0 Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
0x0009 4 5 Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
0x000a 4 5 Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
0x000f 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, CRC
0x0010 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, non-CRC
0x0012 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, CRC
0x0013 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, non-CRC
I regenerated the relevant configs/initramfs as described, but booting with the most current kernel failed again with the same behaviour. Booting with the old rescue kernel was possible.
What is the main difference between the current kernel and the rescue kernel?