From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mummy.ncsc.mil (mummy.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.129]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i89GY2rT012856 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.sws.net.au (jazzhorn.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.9]) by mummy.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i89GX5o3014719 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:33:08 GMT From: Russell Coker Reply-To: russell@coker.com.au To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Subject: Re: at last: info regarding boot problems on multiple partitions Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:33:47 +1000 Cc: SE-Linux References: <20040908224949.GK7717@lkcl.net> In-Reply-To: <20040908224949.GK7717@lkcl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200409100233.47416.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:49, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > FINALLY i got a useable system when i encountered a boot problem > [well, i got a console login]. > > the issue is that partitions fail to be mounted. > > i had noticed over a period of time that programs like pump and dhclient > and some others would stop partitions from being unmounted during > shutdown. > > [remember i have /boot, /, /usr, /var and /home] > > for some reason, this also caused the partitions to fail to MOUNT on > startup. I've seen a very similar problem, but it was intermittent and didn't occur enough to let me debug it. I'm not certain that I saw the same problem but the result of file systems not being mounted was similar. I would be very interested in any further information you may find on this. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.