Firefox (cannot save history), PgAdmin4 sqlite issue, Signal, ... may be caused by kernel >5.13 and wrong F2FS file system check

Question

If you face not working Firefox webDeveloperTools or some history issue, or pgAdmin4 complaining about some weird sqlite issue and even Signal messenger doesn't start, then the problem isn't related to FF or pgadmin4 or Signal, but to the way the kernel >5.13.x handels (unclear?) state of F2FS /home partition.

see: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71611

Answer 1

instant solution: set The sixth field (fs_passno) in /etc/fstab to 2 and reboot.

Example:

UUID=<uuid-of-your-device> /home/ f2fs noatime,relatime  0 2 <---change this to 2

Jaegeuk Kim / Greg Kroah-Hartman commited already a fix:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.13.4&id=63798e31f5888e322491863f88e9c03c435ce116