[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-21 Thread davidh
Yes, maybe it is a compiler issue. I tried to write a small test case that isolates the problem, and I think that I have succeeded. It needs to be (like mountall) compiled with both -fPIE and -Os to actually show the problem, so my guess is that something important is being optimized away. This is

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-20 Thread zoolook
Hello, my box booted once in ten tries (amd64). It didn't show garbled paths, but it didn't like my xfs partitions. Sometimes it was /home, sometimes /var. Your patch worked in the first try (I'll update tomorrow if it works in every boot) but being able to reboot is a step in the right direction

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-18 Thread 3vi1
I see this exact same issue after updating my PS3 today... Guess I'm going to have to learn how to cross-compile mountall with your patch to get it back running. -- boot fails, mountall likely culprit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-18 Thread davidh
Sorry for all the spam, but I have confirmed that this approach does not work unless the variables are made static. I'll also attach a cleaner patch while I'm at it. ** Attachment added: "mountall-0.1.6.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32007384/mountall-0.1.6.patch ** Attachment removed: "

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-18 Thread davidh
Ok, I have it running. As I'm not quite sure what the C standard says here I don't know if I just replaced one kludge for another or if there's an obscure compiler issue involved on ppc, but with the attached patch, my ubuntu starts once again for the first time in a couple of days. (And there's

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-18 Thread davidh
And now diffed in the correct order.. ;-) ** Attachment added: "mountall-0.1.6.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32005611/mountall-0.1.6.patch -- boot fails, mountall likely culprit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-17 Thread davidh
** Description changed: Binary package hint: mountall My system (ibook running karmic) is not booting since the "general breakage" in the last couple of days. Installing the latest upgrades does not help. The boot seems to stop at mountall, whose output contains (perhaps unrelate

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-17 Thread davidh
** Attachment added: "mountall.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31995368/mountall.log -- boot fails, mountall likely culprit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 432222] Re: boot fails, mountall likely culprit

2009-09-17 Thread davidh
** Attachment added: "fstab" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31995365/fstab -- boot fails, mountall likely culprit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubun