On Thursday, 11 April 2024 10:48:15 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:35:10 CEST Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 06:19:57 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > For a while I've been seeing the following ERROR-messages when booting 1 > > > of > > > my systems: > > > > > > * ERROR: cannot start multipathd as localmount would not start > > > > > > * ERROR: cannot start zfs-import as localmount would not start > > > > > > This isn't a big concern as these services will start correctly later: > > > > > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 > > > > > > * Starting multipathd ... > > > [ ok ] > > > * Importing ZFS pool(s) ... > > > [ ok ] > > > > > > But I am trying to find the cause of these errors as they are preventing > > > parallel-start from actually working correctly. > > > > > > When I check with "rc-depend", I don't see an obious cause: > > > > > > # /lib/rc/bin/rc-depend multipathd > > > sysfs devfs udev udev-trigger modules fsck root localmount multipathd > > > > > > # /lib/rc/bin/rc-depend localmount > > > sysfs devfs udev udev-trigger modules fsck root localmount > > > > > > # /lib/rc/bin/rc-depend zfs-import > > > multipath sysfs devfs udev udev-trigger modules fsck root localmount > > > multipathd zfs-import > > > > > > # /lib/rc/bin/rc-depend multipath > > > multipath > > > > > > From how I read these, it should be able to start "localmount" properly > > > before even trying to start "multipathd" and "zfs-import" > > > There is also no technical dependency for "localmount" (the root > > > filesystem > > > is not on ZFS on this system) > > > > > > Any help/suggestions on how to find the cause would be appreciated. > > > > > > -- > > > Joost > > > > Check if hwclock is in the boot runlevel: > > > > rc-update -s -v | grep hwclock > > What does "hwclock" got to do with this? > It has no dependency with multipathd, zfs-import, localmount or anything > else that is showing an error. > > -- > Joost
Our systems are certainly different, but I noticed this dependency on my
localmount which is missing on yours:
# /lib/rc/bin/rc-depend localmount
sysfs devfs udev udev-trigger hwclock modules fsck root dmcrypt localmount
^^^^^^^
Have you compared your system services which has this problem, with other
systems of yours which can startup properly?
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