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Siduction Forum => Upgrade Warnings => Topic started by: bad_aptitude on 2017/03/03, 17:16:54
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After a DU last night I can't login to KDE as user. The login screen just goes blank and then cycles back to the login screen.
I am able to login as root.
I performed another DU this morning but this did not help.
I've been upgrading from the same installation for about 3 years.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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du -h
ls -ld /tmp
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@towo
should I post he entire output of du -h?
running "ls -ld /tmp" after "du -h" just gave me
root@kent_siduction:~# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 Mar 3 10:32 /tmp
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No sure, but maybe he meant "df -h"? To check if some partition (like /tmp or /home) is full...
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here is the result of df -h
root@kent_siduction:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 385M 1.3M 384M 1% /run
/dev/sda4 32G 21G 11G 67% /
tmpfs 1.9G 15M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 96M 43M 54M 44% /boot/efi
/dev/sda3 79G 39G 41G 49% /disks/disk1part3
/dev/sda5 25G 12G 14G 48% /disks/disk1part5
/dev/sda6 320G 236G 83G 75% /home
tmpfs 385M 8.0K 385M 1% /run/user/0
tmpfs 385M 4.0K 385M 1% /run/user/105
[/size]My home directory is a btrfs partition. I can still access it from the console as either root or as user.
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Check the permissions on all the files in your /home folder -- make sure none of them, eg. .Xauthority, are owned by root.
Also I have noticed a new error from systemd journal since it was updated yesterday, "Cannot set file attribute for '/var/log/journal', blah blah blah" -- but it doesn't prevent login. It appears to be a reversion
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199940
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Where would I find ".Xauthority"?
Here is the list of files owned by root in my user's home directory
I found these by running [ ls -alR | grep "root" ]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149 May 23 2016 vpn.sh
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Oct 17 2015 flashplugin-nonfree
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1691 Jun 22 2014 pubkey.asc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1395 Dec 8 2014 ca.crt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 577 Dec 8 2014 crl.pem
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Depending on your desktop environment (mine is KDE), you might see this in your user's home directory:
don@Hibiscus:~$ ls -la | grep authority
-rw------- 1 don don 53 Mar 4 06:43 .Xauthority
If you forget and run a GUI package as root, that file's ownership gets changed and you're finished logging in until you change it back to the user.
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Hi dibl
I am using KDE.
When I run ls -la | grep authority I get
kwd@kent_siduction:~$ ls -la | grep authority
ls: cannot access 'tor': Input/output error
ls: cannot access 'Dropbox': Input/output error
ls: cannot access 'logs': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.dbus': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.kde': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.local': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.Xauthority': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.mplayer': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.pki': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.dropbox': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.sabnzbd': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.packagesearch': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.recently-used': Input/output error
ls: cannot access '.thumbnails': Input/output error
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? .Xauthority
[/size]I get the same whether I run it as root or as user.
[/size]This seems pretty ominous.
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When I'm in the root shell I am getting 6 error messages of the form:
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[ 449783999] BTRFS critical (device sda6): corrupt node, bad key order: block=762344752, root=1, slot=120
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[/size] I took a photo screen shot to get this. The "block" "root" and "slot" are the same for all of the message lines.
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[/size] I also get the following message with ls
[/size] ls cannot access 'logs': Input/output error
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[/size] Is there a way to recover my BTRFS on sda6?
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As root
umount /dev/sda6btrfsck --repair /dev/sda6
Then mount /dev/sda6 and
btrfs scrub start /home
That will take some time to complete, depending on how large the partition is.
More (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/195888/how-to-repair-a-btrfs-block\)
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l ran the repair and scrub on my btrfs partition.
It seems to have worked but there is now no ".Xauthority" file in my home directory. So I guess it was unrecoverable.
I tried copying the file in from a backup either as root or user but I get the following in either case.
[/size]root@kent_siduction:/tmp# cp .Xauthority /home/kwd
cp: cannot stat '/home/kwd/.Xauthority': Input/output error
Is there some other way to get an Xauthority file into my home directory? I would like to avoid doing a reinstallation.
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That file is created automatically at the user's first login to X. I would advise to make another user, and then delete your original user and his home folder (after copying off any needed data), and then remake the original user and when he logs in, the hidden files in his home directory will be rebuilt. There might be a simpler way to fix it but I'm sure this will work if the problem is only with software.
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Thanks dibl.
So I have moved my user directory over to a new user.
It seems my problem was bad sectors on my disk drive. It is odd that btrfs didn't manage this better.
It is also strange that the problem with a corrupted file system was only manifest after a dist upgrade.
I wonder if .Xauthoriity was more vulnerable to this corruption because it changes frequently so the btrfs journaled version got corrupted as well.