Your message dated Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:49:41 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#386006: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386006: Cannot mount
-o auto USB filesystems from /etc/fstab
has caused the Debian Bug report #386006,
regarding checkfs.sh/mountall.sh run before asynchronous detection of USB/SCSI
devices
to be marked as done.
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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.
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Dan,
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:22:58AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> OK, I will try udev here on sid. My problem is not knowing that it is
> time to move away from hotplug to udev. Now I know.
Since this related to the obsolete hotplug system, I will close.
Mark
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