On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:30:39 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello > > On Monday 11 September 2006 01:26, Peter wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:12:00 -0500, David Masover wrote: >> > Peter wrote: >> >> Using: gentoo >> >> kernel 2.6.17.11 with beyond patchset >> >> reiser patch 2.6.17-3 >> >> reiser4progs 1.0.5 >> >> >> >> At the end of the gentoo shutdown script is a short function which >> >> remounts / as ro. >> > >> > There's also one in the Gentoo startup script, which attempts to remount >> > / ro, then remount it rw. I commented that out, because it was causing >> > similar problems. I figure if it runs sync when it shuts down, that's >> > good enough. >> >> The errors I note only occur on shutdown (halt.sh) not startup. > > Sorry, I am confused. In the first mail you said: > "On reboot or after a poweroff, root does not mount properly, and after > some modules are loaded, there are segfaults when running init scripts." > > This looks like you have problems on startup. Would you, please, describe > the > sequence of operations which leads to the problem with more details. > Yes, it is confusing. I may be incorrect. It is my BELIEF that the error is caused by an improper shutdown, not an improper startup. This is because after the error, typing CTRL-D to continue merely unmounts the / volume and reboots again. Next time the system runs fine. If it was a startup problem, wouldn't it occur every time then? If you recall, when I wrote about this with teh Sabayon Linux CD issue, it was not unmounting volumes or syncing them properly which led to a similar problem on startup. That's why I thought the mount -o remount,ro / command was the culprit. I think the only way to nail this down will be to create a separate partition, identical in all ways, except with reiserfs or ext3 instead. See what happens then.
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