Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Daniel Frey]

On 01/21/18 11:15, Daniel Frey wrote:

On 12/31/17 08:28, Daniel Frey wrote:

On 12/31/17 06:12, Jalus Bilieyich wrote:

Did you perform this action:

rc-update add localmount default

?


On my machine (as per my other post) it's in the boot runlevel.

Dan


OK, after turning on some logging I figured out what's happening.

When localmount runs /dev/sdc has not been created yet. Presumably it is 
getting created after localmount runs.


I suspect that this is because there's a delay during kernel 
initialization that loads firmware for some TV tuners I have, and after 
this I can see that /dev/sdc is created.


So the question now is... is it safe to add a delay to localmount? Or is 
there a better way (like... can I tell the kernel to wait a few seconds 
before running init?)


As this is mounted twice (local access and nfs access) in fstab, it 
would be best to fix it before localmount runs.


Dan


OK, I found the rootdelay paramater but it didn't do what it needed 
(presumably because the root partition wasn't mounted so creating 
entries in /dev didn't happen any faster.)


I added the following three lines to add a delay:

# Delay to allow devices to register
einfo "Waiting for RAID devices to settle/register..."
sleep 25

I've rebooted a few times and it starts up correctly now. I don't really 
care if that PC starts in two seconds, I need it to start up 
consistently as it's acting as a server.


Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/31/17 08:28, Daniel Frey wrote:

On 12/31/17 06:12, Jalus Bilieyich wrote:

Did you perform this action:

rc-update add localmount default

?


On my machine (as per my other post) it's in the boot runlevel.

Dan


OK, after turning on some logging I figured out what's happening.

When localmount runs /dev/sdc has not been created yet. Presumably it is 
getting created after localmount runs.


I suspect that this is because there's a delay during kernel 
initialization that loads firmware for some TV tuners I have, and after 
this I can see that /dev/sdc is created.


So the question now is... is it safe to add a delay to localmount? Or is 
there a better way (like... can I tell the kernel to wait a few seconds 
before running init?)


As this is mounted twice (local access and nfs access) in fstab, it 
would be best to fix it before localmount runs.


Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Daniel Frey]

On 01/01/18 01:14, Adam Carter wrote:

> Can you cut and paste the terminal session of the post boot fixes?

What are you asking for here?


Just fishing for more info because I cant think of any circumstance that 
would cause the issue you're seeing.


If it were me i'd force an fsck on next reboot, then reboot. I just had 
a look on my machines and it looks like the old fsck every N mounts is 
disabled everywhere by default these days.




That's a good idea, I stopped nfs, umounted and ran fsck, and it came 
back clean. I've remounted and restarted nfs for now.


I'll try restarting later.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Adam Carter]

>
> > Can you cut and paste the terminal session of the post boot fixes?
>
> What are you asking for here?
>

Just fishing for more info because I cant think of any circumstance that
would cause the issue you're seeing.

If it were me i'd force an fsck on next reboot, then reboot. I just had a
look on my machines and it looks like the old fsck every N mounts is
disabled everywhere by default these days.

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/31/17 06:12, Jalus Bilieyich wrote:

Did you perform this action:

rc-update add localmount default

?


On my machine (as per my other post) it's in the boot runlevel.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/30/17 19:32, Adam Carter wrote:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Frey > wrote:


Some background:

A little while back I had a drive drop out of my hardware RAID. I
don't think this has anything to do with the problem I'm having, but
I thought I should mention it. The RAID health is fine and I can see
there's not any delay in dmesg (the RAID array is detected as /dev/sdc).

On startup, I share the RAID, and hence I mount it locally under
/mnt, then again under /nfs4exports.

Note: I'm using openrc.

For some reason, the entry under /mnt does not mount on startup.
There's no error or any indication of anything going wrong during
startup (nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages regarding any sort of
mount trouble.)

So what happens is nfs starts up but it's missing the one export. I
have to stop nfs, unmount the entry under /nfs4exports, unmount the
entry under /mnt, then mount /dev/sdc1 to /mnt, the mount the entry
under /nfs4exports. After this, everything is mounted properly and I
restart nfs.

I looked at the /etc/init.d/localmount script and it's supposed to
spit out a message if something cannot mount but it does not report
any error.

Is there any sort of logging I can enable to tell me exactly what's
happening? Other local filesystems (total of three) all mount fine.

What does the fstab entry look like?



The fstab entry is just:

/dev/sdc1/mnt/raidext4noatime0 0

The first thing I did was check localmount and it is in the boot 
runlevel (some snipped):


# rc-update show boot

   localmount | boot


Other filesystems mounted OK.

It does list as started:
# rc-status boot
Runlevel: boot
 localmount   [  started  ]


> Can you cut and paste the terminal session of the post boot fixes?

What are you asking for here?

Part of the problem is I restart this machine so infrequently I usually 
forget about the mounting problems until I try to access it remotely.


Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Jalus Bilieyich]

I just noticed it's in /etc/init.d

Sorry for wasting your time.

On 12/31/2017 09:14 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:12:22 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
>> Did you perform this action:
>>
>> rc-update add localmount default
>>
>> ?
> 
> It's in the boot run-level here.
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:12:22 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
> Did you perform this action:
> 
> rc-update add localmount default
> 
> ?

It's in the boot run-level here.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Jalus Bilieyich]

Did you perform this action:

rc-update add localmount default

?

On 12/30/2017 09:22 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> Some background:
> 
> A little while back I had a drive drop out of my hardware RAID. I don't
> think this has anything to do with the problem I'm having, but I thought
> I should mention it. The RAID health is fine and I can see there's not
> any delay in dmesg (the RAID array is detected as /dev/sdc).
> 
> On startup, I share the RAID, and hence I mount it locally under /mnt,
> then again under /nfs4exports.
> 
> Note: I'm using openrc.
> 
> For some reason, the entry under /mnt does not mount on startup. There's
> no error or any indication of anything going wrong during startup
> (nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages regarding any sort of mount
> trouble.)
> 
> So what happens is nfs starts up but it's missing the one export. I have
> to stop nfs, unmount the entry under /nfs4exports, unmount the entry
> under /mnt, then mount /dev/sdc1 to /mnt, the mount the entry under
> /nfs4exports. After this, everything is mounted properly and I restart nfs.
> 
> I looked at the /etc/init.d/localmount script and it's supposed to spit
> out a message if something cannot mount but it does not report any error.
> 
> Is there any sort of logging I can enable to tell me exactly what's
> happening? Other local filesystems (total of three) all mount fine.
> 
> Dan
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Adam Carter]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Frey  wrote:

> Some background:
>
> A little while back I had a drive drop out of my hardware RAID. I don't
> think this has anything to do with the problem I'm having, but I thought I
> should mention it. The RAID health is fine and I can see there's not any
> delay in dmesg (the RAID array is detected as /dev/sdc).
>
> On startup, I share the RAID, and hence I mount it locally under /mnt,
> then again under /nfs4exports.
>
> Note: I'm using openrc.
>
> For some reason, the entry under /mnt does not mount on startup. There's
> no error or any indication of anything going wrong during startup (nothing
> in dmesg or /var/log/messages regarding any sort of mount trouble.)
>
> So what happens is nfs starts up but it's missing the one export. I have
> to stop nfs, unmount the entry under /nfs4exports, unmount the entry under
> /mnt, then mount /dev/sdc1 to /mnt, the mount the entry under /nfs4exports.
> After this, everything is mounted properly and I restart nfs.
>
> I looked at the /etc/init.d/localmount script and it's supposed to spit
> out a message if something cannot mount but it does not report any error.
>
> Is there any sort of logging I can enable to tell me exactly what's
> happening? Other local filesystems (total of three) all mount fine.
>
>
What does the fstab entry look like?

Can you cut and paste the terminal session of the post boot fixes?

[gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

[Daniel Frey]

Some background:

A little while back I had a drive drop out of my hardware RAID. I don't 
think this has anything to do with the problem I'm having, but I thought 
I should mention it. The RAID health is fine and I can see there's not 
any delay in dmesg (the RAID array is detected as /dev/sdc).


On startup, I share the RAID, and hence I mount it locally under /mnt, 
then again under /nfs4exports.


Note: I'm using openrc.

For some reason, the entry under /mnt does not mount on startup. There's 
no error or any indication of anything going wrong during startup 
(nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages regarding any sort of mount trouble.)


So what happens is nfs starts up but it's missing the one export. I have 
to stop nfs, unmount the entry under /nfs4exports, unmount the entry 
under /mnt, then mount /dev/sdc1 to /mnt, the mount the entry under 
/nfs4exports. After this, everything is mounted properly and I restart nfs.


I looked at the /etc/init.d/localmount script and it's supposed to spit 
out a message if something cannot mount but it does not report any error.


Is there any sort of logging I can enable to tell me exactly what's 
happening? Other local filesystems (total of three) all mount fine.


Dan