On 12/15/10 10:32:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> [10-12-15 10:00]: > > Hi, > > > > I have to power down one of my machines each day. > > Booting it the other day fails from time to time. > > On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by > its > > > own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes (silently). > > The first unusual message is that it cannot find the file > > /usr/sbin/acpid . After that, most other actions fail as well. > > > > Once the machine has failed to boot it will fail every time > afterwards > > unless I do the following: > > I boot by a rescue CD, change root and re-emerge sys-power/acpid > (this > > package contains /usr/sbin/acpid). > > This single action has helped without any problem each time I had > to > > > try it. > > > > Of course, I've done many checks on the drive hosting the /usr > > partition - no errors at all (the drive is only a few months old > and > a > > good one (enterprise edition)). > > > > So, I suspect openrc. Might it be that this is a timing problem and > > openrc doesn't check if the partition is mounted? Booting has > worked > > > just flawlessly on that machine for more than a year. It looks as > if > a > > recent version of openrc (currently 0.6.8) has generated this > problem. > > > > Thanks for any hint, > > Helmut. > > > > > > Hi Helmut, > > it would be interesting to know, whether /usr/sbin/acpid is really > missing, when the boot fails.
The system allows me to login as root - though / is still mounted read only. And /usr isn't mounted. I can remount the root partition read/ write and then mount /usr. Now the file /usr/sbin/acpid is there (of course). Just reboot(ing) after that is not enough. Yes, I should try to write something to the /usr partition instead of emerging something and see if it helps. > > If it is not missing, the boot fails due to a mount problem and not > the re-installing of acpid as such cures the problem, but what this > installation is doing else. > Or in other words: Any installation, which put someting into /usr > cures the problem. > > If the mount of /usr is the problem, which arises from a timing > problem than there is something done in parallel which should be done > in sequence (and was previously done in sequence). > > I dont know openrc, but may be a setting in its configuration file > regarding this aspect will cure the problem? I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. > > Good luck! Probably, I do need that. Many thanks, Helmut.
