[Solved] /home: waiting for /dev/disk/by-uuid

[birkopf]

Re: [Solved] /home: waiting for /dev/disk/by-uuid

To all people who have been writing since Fintan closed this topic originally. After digging through I found out that there is a problem when updating from 9.04 to 9.10. I don't know which files exactly cause turbulence but I know one thing - It will be annoying and those messages during boot, problems with slowness, RAM overuse, brightness of screen - ALL GONE.

What I have done ? Got all my personal files out of disk (from home folder) Configuration stays in. Reformatted disk throughout out. Installed 9.10 from CD.

Everything Works Brilliantly and I don't even feel that this is test version

I know reinstall should be last resource but in this instance - do it baby and don't looks back

PS - Snowhog's opinions were best - as always. Thank you.

[devnulljp]

Re: [Solved] /home: waiting for /dev/disk/by-uuid

...except I get those messages on a fresh install from the 9.10 DVD on a brand new PC.

[51m0n]

Re: [Solved] /home: waiting for /dev/disk/by-uuid

+1 I too get exactly the same issue.

I have checked my fstab, and UUIDs as above, everything matches up, I am using Reisefs (always have and never had issues like this before).

Also just get a bunch of hard to read messages similar to those above whip by. Sometimes the boot griinds to a halt and sometimes it manages to drag itself up even though this is happening.

Prvious versions have been fine.

[51m0n]

Re: [Solved] /home: waiting for /dev/disk/by-uuid

Well a little grubbing around with find in /etc suggests that the issue may well be something to do with /init/mountall.conf since that is responsible for:-

# mountall - Mount filesystems on boot
#
# This helper mounts filesystems in the correct order as the devices
# and mountpoints become available.

and it clearly doesnt currently wait for devices to become properly available!

At this point I stand back and await a more knowledgeable person to step in and tell me I'm wrong and where the issue actually is :P

Interestingly (to me) the man page for mountall states:-

DESCRIPTION
mountall reads fstab( 5 ) and calls fsck( 8 ), mount( 8 ) and swapon( 8 ) in the correct order to mount filesystems once the underlying devices have been created by
udevd( 8 )

This is a temporary tool until init( 8 ) itself gains the necessary flexibility to perform this processing; you should not rely on its behaviour.

//---------------

Which would suggest that maybe the underlying issue is with udevd perhaps?

Someone enlighten me, this is making this distro completely useless, I get a clean boot maybe one in five goes curently!