Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> [10-12-15 10:00]: > Hi, > > I have to power down one of my machines each day. > Booting it the other day fails from time to time. > On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its > own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes (silently). > The first unusual message is that it cannot find the file > /usr/sbin/acpid . After that, most other actions fail as well. > > Once the machine has failed to boot it will fail every time afterwards > unless I do the following: > I boot by a rescue CD, change root and re-emerge sys-power/acpid (this > package contains /usr/sbin/acpid). > This single action has helped without any problem each time I had to > try it. > > Of course, I've done many checks on the drive hosting the /usr > partition - no errors at all (the drive is only a few months old and a > good one (enterprise edition)). > > So, I suspect openrc. Might it be that this is a timing problem and > openrc doesn't check if the partition is mounted? Booting has worked > just flawlessly on that machine for more than a year. It looks as if a > recent version of openrc (currently 0.6.8) has generated this problem. > > Thanks for any hint, > Helmut. > >
Hi Helmut, it would be interesting to know, whether /usr/sbin/acpid is really missing, when the boot fails. If it is not missing, the boot fails due to a mount problem and not the re-installing of acpid as such cures the problem, but what this installation is doing else. Or in other words: Any installation, which put someting into /usr cures the problem. If the mount of /usr is the problem, which arises from a timing problem than there is something done in parallel which should be done in sequence (and was previously done in sequence). I dont know openrc, but may be a setting in its configuration file regarding this aspect will cure the problem? Good luck! Best regards, mcc
