On Sunday 28 December 2008 12:05, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to happen all the time. In the past it had seemed to
> > happen every time (but perhaps I had just got unlucky), now it seems to
> > fail to halt about 70% of the time.
>
> Could it be that the presence of the SD card makes the difference? If so,
> this would be a duplicate of #496540.
I have /home on an LVM volume on /dev/sdb (which is a SD card). The SD card
is always inserted and I have never had any problems booting in this regard.
In the past I found that there was a 50% chance that my system would hang in
the boot process when setting the clock. The fact that it worked 50% of the
time when the SD card was installed indicates that #496540 would not be the
problem. In recent kernels that hang on boot seems to have gone away.
pvdisplay tells me "PV Size 7.51 GB / not usable 512.00KB" which I
understand to mean that the last 512K of /dev/sdb is not used. So it seems
to me that it would be impossible for me to encounter any variant of #496540
(which is related to reading the last 8 sectors on the device) with my
current configuration. But it could be that I misunderstand something about
how LVM works.
Also I have just checked my EeePC configuration, I am running the latest
kernel ("apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't offer me a newer
one).
I believe that this bug should remain open and should not be merged with
#496540.
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