Re: Problem with Ubuntu 22.04 failing to restart from NVME SSD, needs a power cycle

[Glenn Washburn]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 14:41:14 +0100
Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

> A year or two ago I got a lot of help from this list when I installed
> an NVME SSD on my system and, because it wasn't recognised by the BIOS
> I had to configure a slightly odd boot sequence to get it to work.
> 
> It has been working beautifully through two or three versions of
> [x]ubuntu until I recently upgraded from 21.10 to 22.04.
> 
> The system runs OK but it can't be restarted, I have to power down and
> power up again, then it boots OK.
> 
> If I wait for a while after a restart I see:-
> 
>     Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device
>     Common problems:
>        -Boot arge (cat /proc/cmdline)
>           - check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
>           - missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> 
>     ALERT: UUID=2d6ff70c-1894-4afa-a35c-5abb40549d3b does not exist.
>     Dropping to a shell!

This is output most likely from your initrd, and almost certainly not
from GRUB. I'm wondering what kind of reboot you're doing. Are you sure
if a soft boot? Do you see any output from GRUB? It occurs to me that
you might be doing a kexec reboot, in which case GRUB is not even in
the picture. Regardless, you're either skipping GRUB or GRUB is working
enough to hand off to the Linux kernel. So this doesn't seem to be a
GRUB issue.

Glenn

> 
> 
> That UUID=2d6ff70c-1894-4afa-a35c-5abb40549d3b is the NVME SSD mounted
> on / so it's not surprising it doesn't start!  
> 
> I need to work out why the disk 'disappears' on restart but is there
> OK when powered up from off.
> 
> Any ideas on how to diagnose and fix this problem would be very welcome.
> 
> 
> Oh, just in case it's relevant, my /etc/fstab is:-
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> #
> #
> # /dev/nvme0n1 is the new 1Tb PCiExpress SSD I installed around Dec 2019. 
> Since this
> # drive can't be seen by the BIOS /boot is a separate partition on the 128Gb 
> SATA SSD
> # that originally had the OS on it.
> #
> # <file system>                         <mount point>  <type>  <options>     
> <dump>  <pass>
> #
> #
> # / (/dev/nvme0n1p2) root filesystem, just contains OS
> #
> UUID=2d6ff70c-1894-4afa-a35c-5abb40549d3b       /       ext4  
> errors=remount-ro 0       1
> #
> #
> # /boot (/dev/sda1 SATA SSD)
> #
> UUID=9369df95-29a8-4cbd-adf0-80dfd765f1ba       /boot   ext4    defaults      
>   0       2
> #
> #
> # swap (/dev/nvme0n1p1)
> #
> UUID=88e3aeed-1d01-4523-a209-b3b4cc027dc7       none    swap    sw            
>   0       0
> #
> #
> # /home (/dev/nvme0n1p3)
> #
> UUID=7e8a314e-7eea-4f43-b8ed-9db025e41cbf       /home   ext4    relatime      
>   0       2
> #
> #
> # /bak (/dev/sdb1), 1TB hard disk
> #
> UUID=c1858398-52f4-4d03-b4e7-914fb7098ee8       /bak    ext4    relatime      
>   0       2
> #
> #
> # /scratch (/dev/sda2) spare space on 128Gb SATA SSD
> #
> UUID=7b4de2e8-755d-4cb4-a8cb-82c493d5545a    /scratch   ext4    relatime      
>   0       2
>