Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems

["Jason Weisberger" <jbdubbs@gmail.com>]

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Neil,

Other than complaining about being old or a "pre-fail" state, it passes the
smart check.  Not sure if any of this actually means something.

Benno,

I'll have to try that for a while and see what happens.  It will take some
time to see if it works properly.

On 7/22/06, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jason Weisberger wrote:
> > Odd problem....  it seems as if almost completely at random, my
> > boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems...... for no
> > reason.  It will freeze there until you restart the computer.  If
> > I boot a Live CD and mount the volume or run an fsck.ext3 on it
> > (which always comes back clean), the next time I try to boot to
> > it, it'll be fine.
>
> Try marking the affected partition as ext2 instead of ext3
> in /etc/fstab, so the journal does not get used, and see if the
> problem still occurs.  If not, you've found a bug in ext3.
>
> Benno
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Jason Weisberger
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