| sveinse | Hi any activity here now? I have a natty armel system which hangs during boot. When I got around to start it in verbose and to start a serial terminal very early, I see that mountall, plymouth and udevd is running. I can't find out why the boot is stalling. | 20:18 |
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| JanC | sveinse: it's not fsck'ing or something like that? | 20:26 |
| sveinse | JanC, no nothing | 20:28 |
| sveinse | I'm not ruling out a faulty kernel or HW at this point. udev should trigger a series of events (*-device-*), could this be depended upon to be able to continue the boot? | 20:29 |
| sveinse | Except dmesg shows nothing suspicious | 20:30 |
| sveinse | But I trace this back to no rc-sysinit, hence no "filesystem" event being emitted, hence mountall which stalls | 20:33 |
| JanC | you can probably look at /var/log/udev to see if those events were triggered | 20:34 |
| JanC | if you can access the filesystem | 20:34 |
| sveinse | janC, no, root isn't mounted as rw yet | 20:34 |
| sveinse | Do you know if I can --verbose on mountall ? | 20:35 |
| JanC | well, I don't know if you can boot a known working system from SD or USB with your ARM system, and then access the normal root filesystem from that? | 20:36 |
| sveinse | I can take out the sdcard and insert it into my desktop machine, yes | 20:36 |
| sveinse | This is how I got --verbose on upstart and an early serial console in the first place | 20:37 |
| sveinse | So I can modify anything | 20:37 |
| JanC | and read the udev log file? | 20:37 |
| JanC | hm, but it probably didn't write anything, right | 20:37 |
| JanC | seems like mountall does have a --verbose setting | 20:38 |
| JanC | so in theory you can edit its upstart job config? | 20:38 |
| sveinse | jup | 20:38 |
| sveinse | doing it now | 20:39 |
| JanC | --dev-wait-time=... might be useful too, for some problems | 20:40 |
| sveinse | hmm. --verbose logs to stdout/err which is logged into /var/log/boot-something.log | 20:41 |
| sveinse | Which isn't writeable yet. I'll have to modify the kernel params and enable rw I think | 20:42 |
| JanC | can't you redirect it to your serial console? | 20:43 |
| sveinse | JanC, yes I just did and now mountall continues like nothings ever happened. | 21:09 |
| sveinse | JanC, but I have to leave. Thanks for your help. I got some pointers of where to look. | 21:09 |
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