Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-13 Severity: normal
My machine has its root filesystem on an IDE disk and a second filesystem on a USB device. At boot, the kernel scans for and finds the USB device concurrently with other activities; this process includes a deliberate pause "waiting for device to settle" before the SCSI system takes over and looks for partitions. Normally the device is ready by the time that mountall runs and the USB filesystem is mounted OK; however, about one time in four, the device is not ready and it is not mounted. Ideally, initscripts would wait for an extra second or two until the kernel had created the device and retry the mount. There are a couple of related cases to compare this with: - If an NFS mount attempt fails, a mount process will be backgrounded to keep retrying it. (I think this functionality is inside mount. See man 5 nfs.) (Actually this can be the wrong thing to do if the failure was e.g. "mount point does not exist" as it hides the actual error, see bug #389055.) - If a USB storage device provides the root filesystem, the kernel and/or the initramfs code will wait for it to be ready. Regards, Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprogs 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-10 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.12r-10 Tools for mounting and manipulatin initscripts recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
