upstart/mountall does not boot after mounting crypto disks

[rrva]

Binary package hint: udev

Upstart fails to finish booting after starting init of crypto disks. udevd complains about inotify_add_watch(6, (null), 10) failed: Bad address. When investigating the system by forcing a getty to be spawned and logging in, I can see that / is read-only and swap is not mounted.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 29 22:07:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: LENOVO 423339G
Package: udev 147~-5
ProcCmdLine: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=/dev/mapper/vg1-root_crypt
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: udev
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 10/20/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6GET12WW(V1.03)
dmi.board.name: KIWDX
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: REFERENCE
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6GET12WW(V1.03):bd10/20/2008:svnLENOVO:pn423339G:pvrLenovo3000N500:rvnLENOVO:rnKIWDX:rvrREFERENCE:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: 423339G
dmi.product.version: Lenovo 3000 N500
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Pasting the user's fstab as requested (non-booting systems make cut-n-paste !fun)

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg1-root_crypt / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/mapper/vg0-boot during installation
UUID=350a70dd-78c3-4616-ae04-7038341cda18 /boot ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/mapper/vg1-swap_crypt none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/resumefile swap swap noauto,defaults 0 0

[Timothy Pearson (kb9vqf)]

Don't know if this will help you track it down, but I have several identical computers, each running an identical imaged Karmic installation. One of them is unaffected by this bug, and the other two will not boot no matter what I do--including re-imaging from the working one. (???)

Could the BIOS configuration/version have any role in this?

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 2 19:13:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: upstart 0.6.3-5
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
System: IBM Thinkpad X40, 2371LG3

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt / btrfs errors=remount-ro,compress,ssd 0 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2

I've seen the same behaviour after an update. Persists even after a tried reinstall. My root partition is a luks-encrypted btrfs, which worked fine with Alpha5. I'm still using the older kernel, because the alpha6 initrd doesn't even find the cryptoroot.

Cannot decipher where exactly the boot/upstart hang occours, but mountall.conf seems a problem spot on my setup too. The initial error message is identical: "udevd[1283]: inotify_add_watch(...) Bad address". The initrd cryptsetup ran through fine.

upstart/initctl doesn't give any details to where or why it hangs. Is there a debug mode or /etc/init.conf setting to make it verbose?

[rrva (ragnar-rova)]

My problem went away by reinstalling jaunty from scratch and then upgrading to karmic via aptitude. Don't know what triggered this. New install has the same filesystem setup with crypto disks.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

Me too. A _clean_ reinstall with Karmic-Beta1-desktop fixed most bootup problems. System is working again with luks-encrypted root partition and btrfs (- with manual conversion after install).

Guess: some remaining Alpha5 init.d/ scripts (or udev rules??) caused most of the upgrade / boot problems.
No idea if that helps - but I just attach my etc/ directory here. (karmic-....tbz2, some cruft removed)