[gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems

[gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems

[Jason Weisberger]

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List,

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.  Then it seems it'll do it all over
again completely at random.  Ideas?

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

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:06:54 -0400, 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. 

It could be the drive failing. Install and run smartmontools to check it.


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

[Benno Schulenberg]

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

[Jason Weisberger]

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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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>
>


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

[Benno Schulenberg]

Jason Weisberger wrote a month ago:
> 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.
>
> I'll have to try that for a while and see what happens.  It will
> take some time to see if it works properly.

How did it go?  Did you find out what the problem was?

Benno

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

[Martins Steinbergs]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 23:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Jason Weisberger wrote a month ago:
> > 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.
> >
> > I'll have to try that for a while and see what happens.  It will
> > take some time to see if it works properly.
>
> How did it go?  Did you find out what the problem was?
>
> Benno
>
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> Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas.

I have the same problem with ck sources kernel, gentoo sources kernel never 
stopped at mounting local file system, or just lucky random hits there

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

[Jason Weisberger]

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Martins,

The problem just seemed to disappear.... I did a few kernel upgrades since
this thread, and it never seemed to kick in again.  I've also switched to
reiser 4, but that was recently, so I guess I'm not really sure where the
problem was.  I'm still using ck sources without problems now.

Jason Weisberger

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