Xbian broke my HDD, any solution?

[namecaps]

Hi,

I had Xbian installed on my USB. Today did apt-get dist-upgrade and kernel stopped to boot (23+), it was hanging after "switching root" - sometimes with some weird artefacts on the screen, sometimes with no signal.
I tried to copy a backup from before apt-get upgrade to boot (18+), and since then it is saying something like this:
parent transid verify failed on 57569280 wanted 18732 found 18734
Just with different number. I tried to mount partitions manually, but nothing works.

What else I saw in the log is that on each boot it was trying to resize partition of /dev/sda

Any help here? I'm thinking about booting from another sd card, as from the one with currently inserted there are no tools at all available in recovery console.

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Ok, so I booted from fresh SD card, logged in to ssh and it seems only brtfs partition is broken on sda:
107.902839] device label xbian-copy devid 1 transid 5037 /dev/sda3
[ 107.917706] btrfs: use lzo compression
[ 107.917741] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled
[ 107.997606] parent transid verify failed on 34693120 wanted 5038 found 5037
[ 107.997645] btrfs: failed to read log tree
[ 108.001970] btrfs: open_ctree failed
[ 399.166255] device label xbian-copy devid 1 transid 5037 /dev/sda3
[ 399.178808] btrfs: unrecognized mount option 'brtfs'
[ 399.179650] btrfs: open_ctree failed
[ 441.369358] device label xbian-copy devid 1 transid 5037 /dev/sda3
[ 441.388989] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled
[ 441.482749] parent transid verify failed on 34693120 wanted 5038 found 5037
[ 441.482793] btrfs: failed to read log tree
[ 441.487494] btrfs: open_ctree failed
[ 511.130725] device label xbian-beta2 devid 1 transid 62 /dev/mmcblk0p2
[ 520.700602] device label xbian-beta2 devid 1 transid 63 /dev/mmcblk0p2
[ 565.344193] device label xbian-beta2 devid 1 transid 65 /dev/mmcblk0p2

Any ide where to go next? brtfs-aut-snapshot is not showing anything on this installation

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Mounting with recovery option also not working:

root@xbian:/usr/sbin# mount -t btrfs -o recovery,nospace_cache,nospace_cache /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

root@xbian:/usr/sbin#

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Also tried this tool, but no luck https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Restore

[namecaps]

An update - just did a fresh install on a new sd card, did apt-get update and upgrade and system is again hanging on loading.. what is this?

[josch]

(18th Jan, 2014 10:54 PM)namecaps Wrote:  An update - just did a fresh install on a new sd card, did apt-get update and upgrade and system is again hanging on loading.. what is this?

So the new install was working before upgrading with apt-get?
Where exactly is it hanging? - On 'Configuring network...' and you haven't ethernet connected? If so, check: http://forum.xbian.org/thread-1988.html

[IriDium]

@namecaps Can you enable rescue and remove quiet and loglevel=0 from cmdline.txt and send a screenshot of the output.

I also think your title is misleading - you HDD seems fine - Xbian may not work but you HDD still works? So it's not broken not damaged in anyway?

If anything this looks like a conflict on where your BOOT drive is located and what is in cmdline.txt

Please post output from config.txt and cmdline.txt

[kbarb]

Yes, misleading - a bit of hyperbole. I thought I was going to read about a hosed hard drive, but it's actually an OS that's gone bad.