Subject: initscripts does not wait for devices before swapon Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-38 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** Initscripts does not wait for devices to become available before running the swapon command. On our systems, swap is rarely activated at boot, and must be done manually by the administrator. On low memory systems, this can prevent various other on-boot scripts from executing successfully via init. We have only experienced this problem on our dual quad-core AMD Opteron machines. Presumably the higher performance offered by these machines is more likely to trigger was is essentially a race condition. We have worked around this issue by placing 'sleep 15' into mountall.sh prior to the swapon command; however, a proper permanent fix would be beneficial to all. It should be noted that we have also attempted to resolve this issue by specifying our swap device as /dev/.static/dev/sda2 (where /dev/ sda2 is our normal device). Unfortunately, this attempted solution was not successful. My company can provide root access to an affected virtual machine to the appropriate debian maintainer. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-xen-vserver-amd64 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii deb 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2f 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mou 2.12r-19 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sys 2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
