Im having a similar problem on bootup, since about 4-5 days ago, ive found that
if
any other ext2 file systems ( bar /, swap ) are mounted thru fstab, bootup just
sits
at
mounting the file systems
The problem automagically dissapears when i disable the other partitions being
mounted at boot by using noauto etc. ( problem is repeatable and with different
kernels including 2.0.36 as originally installed ?).
Im keeping up with potato, ( yeah i know unstable, but its probably safer to
keep up
with new libs this way ;), and its still a lot easier to keep running than NT
grin
)
I suspect it has something to do with a recent update ??.
Parallelizing fsck v1.16 22-10-1999 seems to be the last command printed to the
console when this happens and it never finishes mounting all drives.
Running a manual e2fsk reports no funnies and the system behaves normally when i
mount them manually
I have not noticed any problems on shutdown
cheers
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and
shutdown. During boot it gets as far as mounting local file systems...
not mounted anything. It then pauses for several minutes before finally
continuing, after which the system seems to work normally.
On running shutdown, it proceeds as far as sending the KILL message
after which it again pauses for several minutes before continuing.
The other symptom is that after all this the date gets set back to 1 Jan
1990.
I know this is very bizarre; can anyone syggest what could have
happened? I haven't changed any files that I can think of.
If nothing else seems to work I may contemplate reinstalling to a free
area of the hard disk, but that seems rather extreme. Would it be worth
recompiling the kernel in case it's become corrupt?
Anthony
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