On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:39:45AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Severity: critical > > Justification: breaks the whole system > > hmm yes i know of that situation it affects a certain range of roots. > > > > Today i went to the datacenter to reboot the xserve G5 i have there, for > > some > > random reason, and what was not my surprise to notice that the box didn't > > come > > up anymore. > > > > After some dmesg examination, i noticed that the sata disks did come up only > > after i-t tried to bring up the RAID and LVM stuff, which is really not > > nice. > > the trouble is that udevsellte exists to early that mean when > the scsi/usb discs are not up yet. > hitting raid/lvm2 roots on those devices and more general lilo boots > as there you have no root dev to wait for. > i notified udev upstream for it, but got no response i'll reask privately. > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116189244404693&w=2
Yeah, please do, we really need to fix this before etch is out, i don't think that having a server who cannot reboot sometimes is something we want to ship in etch. > > Furthermore, playing offline without any info with the box, i was not able > > to > > convince i-t to mount the partition and investigate, but well, i guess i > > would > > have been able to do so if i had the code available, or more time to > > investigate. > > you should have rerun the early initramfs-tools stages, see init. > than it works. Ah, that was the missing info. I searched a bit, but didn't find easily what to do, and then i had to leave. I will be at the box on thursday again. Now, as a temporary workaround, maybe one solution, if RAID/LVM was not found is to delay for a given time (1/2 minute ? a configurable time ?), and then try again. Another nice thing would be able to rerun the early initramfs-tools stages, or maybe even have a stamp of each completed stage, and a single command which allow to restart the detection from there ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
