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