Subject: initscripts does not wait for devices before swapon
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38
Severity: normal
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Initscripts does not wait for devices to become available before
running the swapon command.
On our systems, swap is rarely activated at boot, and must be done
manually by the administrator. On low memory systems, this can
prevent various other on-boot scripts from executing successfully via
init. We have only experienced this problem on our dual quad-core AMD
Opteron machines. Presumably the higher performance offered by these
machines is more likely to trigger was is essentially a race
condition. We have worked around this issue by placing 'sleep 15'
into mountall.sh prior to the swapon command; however, a proper
permanent fix would be beneficial to all.
It should be noted that we have also attempted to resolve this issue
by specifying our swap device as /dev/.static/dev/sda2 (where /dev/
sda2 is our normal device). Unfortunately, this attempted solution
was not successful.
My company can provide root access to an affected virtual machine to
the appropriate debian maintainer.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-xen-vserver-amd64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii deb 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii e2f 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 ext2 file system
utilities and lib
ii lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii lsb 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip
ii mou 2.12r-19 Tools for mounting and
manipulatin
ii sys 2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like utilities
Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the
proc filesy
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