[Voyage-linux] reboot sometimes stops in the middle

[Robbert]

Hi Beat,

Thank you for your suggestions.

You are right; I have a bad mount point in /etc/fstab. The story is that I added another usb storage, so I deleted /mnt/usb, and created /mnt/disk and /mnt/disk2. Because I want the big disk to always mount on /mnt/disk, so I created an udev rule to check the disks and auto mount them.  I forgot to delete the entry in /etc/fstab. :)

No, in the bad case, I can not login.

I removed the entry in /et/fstab, and will do more reboot and see how it's going. 

Thanks.

Robbert

-----Original Message-----
From: Beat Meier [mailto:mbe_ml at swiss-wireless.com.ar] 
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:33 AM
To: Robbert
Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] reboot sometimes stops in the middle

Hi Robbert

Try do insert debug output in
   /etc/init.d/udev
in the start) section
and in
   /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
in the do_start section
The message in the bad case:
   kill: Could not kill pid '1601': No such process
if very rare and the udev messages are missing like ...
   Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.

Question: In the bad case can you login?
Is the proc and dev filesystem mounted?
I thinks there is in either of this 2 a problem...

Have you modified any startscript or do you have a bad mount point in 
/etc/fstab?
The following messages are a little bit strange ...

Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or 
/mnt/usb busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /mnt/disk

It seens that you mount the root filesystem also to /mnt/disk

Only some ideas to go on ...

Greetings

Beat

Robbert wrote:

>First happy new year to you all!
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>I think I got a reboot problem and have no idea what happened.
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>It's an Alix1 board fitted with a LAN1641 (4 Ethernet PCI card ). The cold boot (Power on ) is fine, but sometimes when I issue "reboot", the next boot will fail in the middle. Can anyone tell me what the possible problem is? Thanks in advance.
>  
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