I spent another half day or so on this. I didn't really get anywhere.... but I think the evidence is that neither the mountall.conf main script nor mountall itself actually restart (the script doesn't echo and the 2nd set of fscks don't show the "parse_filesystems" comments of the first, which are generated early in mountall.c's main() even before daemonisation). So, my best guess is that for some reason mountall is losing its state information and then either a timer timing out or a signal is sending it back to the main loop in this amnesic state. I don't know why it doesn't exit, but suspect it may be hanging either due to problems communicating with a serial console or perhaps on that last line call to ply_boot_client_flush at a time when plymouth may already be dead (I can't see where ply_boot_client would be set to NULL in mountall.c, though I admit I haven't searched all the plymouth includes, but if this theory is correct I can't figure out what restarts plymouth for the 2nd set of fscks). Other mysteries : why does it work the 2nd time around, and why does it work when a large filesystem (my /var is 6GB) needs checking. I don't know.
Most concerning is that I can't find anything that seems to umount the disks before that 2nd set of fscks kicks in. If so, this means that the 2nd set of fscks is being run on mounted filesystems. I gather this can be dangerous. I'm sure you're aware of this, but I'll point out that if you put -M in your fsck calls that would make things safer - you'd no longer be relying solely on your own internal book-keeping for running fsck. Maybe this would have downsides, I'm not sure. It's just a suggestion. I could spend more time on this but I won't. In fact I've made the tactical decision to move to Debian stable branch Lenny as of tomorrow. Goodbye and good luck! -- mountall does everything twice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
