[20:18] <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.
[20:26] <JanC> sveinse: it's not fsck'ing or something like that?
[20:28] <sveinse> JanC, no nothing
[20:29] <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?
[20:30] <sveinse> Except dmesg shows nothing suspicious
[20:33] <sveinse> But I trace this back to no rc-sysinit, hence no "filesystem" event being emitted, hence mountall which stalls
[20:34] <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
[20:35] <sveinse> Do you know if I can --verbose on mountall ?
[20:36] <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
[20:37] <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
[20:38] <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
[20:39] <sveinse> doing it now
[20:40] <JanC> --dev-wait-time=... might be useful too, for some problems
[20:41] <sveinse> hmm. --verbose logs to stdout/err which is logged into /var/log/boot-something.log
[20:42] <sveinse> Which isn't writeable yet. I'll have to modify the kernel params and enable rw I think
[20:43] <JanC> can't you redirect it to your serial console?
[21:09] <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.