tags 497575 + patch thanks El Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:04:50 Sven Joachim escribió: > forcemerge 386006 497575 > thanks > > The problem is not new, it has already been reported in #386006, as well > as several times in Ubuntu: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/40722 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/47850 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/118397 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/182616 > > On 2008-09-02 22:23 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > > I think the best solution is to check if there are devices being connected, > > maybe asking udev or udevd, but I do not know how to do it, and delay until > > then. > > You can try to play around with this, but I highly doubt it would work, > since it's the kernel that has not yet detected the device. Actually, I > added a line with `udevadm settle' to checkfs.sh, and it had no > effect -- the USB memory stick that I plugged in before the reboot was > only recognized a few seconds after checkfs.sh had run. > > > Maybe checking specifically if any system to be checked is being connected. > > The only real solution to this may be an event-based init system, like > upstart that is used in Ubuntu and Fedora. There's also a Debian > package in experimental if you're feeling adventurous. > > Sven >
I readed all the headlines that reportbug showed me and didn't saw that, but
I'm happy it's a known issue being worked on and am sad that it is a nearly
unresolvable issue at today's date.
What about this?
--- checkfs.sh.original 2008-09-02 21:45:40.000000000 +0200
+++ checkfs.sh 2008-09-03 11:22:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@
fi
#
+ # Wait for the system to settle if the user wants to
+ #
+ if [ -f /etc/checkfs-wait ]
+ then
+ log_action_begin_msg "Waiting for the external file systems to
settle as requested"
+ source /etc/checkfs-wait
+ log_action_end_msg $?
+ fi
+
+ #
# Check the rest of the file systems.
#
if [ ! -f /fastboot ] && [ ! "$BAT" ] && [ "$FSCKTYPES" != "none" ]
--- /dev/null 2008-09-02 20:47:33.502628617 +0200
+++ /usr/share/doc/initscripts/checkfs-wait.example.TO-BE-SHIPPED
2008-09-03 11:17:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Use this file if your system boot uses to miss some external disk at
filesystem check time
+# For it to work copy it to /etc/checkfs-wait
+
+/bin/sleep 5
Thanks
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