ureadahead-other main process (801) terminated with status 4

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: ureadahead

Every time I boot into my Lucid, I have the same error message:

  init: ureadahead-other main process (801) terminated with status 4

I attach /var/log/boot.log for reference.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ureadahead 0.100.0-4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 2 00:19:33 2010
PackDump: Error: command ['ureadahead', '--dump'] failed with exit code 4: ureadahead:/var/lib/ureadahead/pack: Permission denied
PackDumpVar.Run: Error: command ['ureadahead', '--dump'] failed with exit code 4: ureadahead:/var/lib/ureadahead/pack: Permission denied
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ureadahead

[Akkana Peck (akkzilla)]

I see the same message.

init: ureadahead-other main process (621) terminated with status 4
then the same message repeated with a different pid, 669

then 5 repetitions of:
could not write bytes: Broken pipe
with line feeds but not carriage returns between them.

These are all on virtual console 7, not 1, before starting X.
Lucid installed from debootstrap, no gdm.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This message is harmless.

Marking as a duplicate of the bug that the message is shown at all

[Betz Stefan (encbladexp)]

I can also confirm this Bug. I debbootstraped a new lucid, and if i try to boot with this System it hangs on ureadahead with exit status 4. After chroot from another system an removing ureadahead i can boot without problems. Starting ureadahead one time manual from a shell (so it creates /var/cache/ureadahead/pack) helps to avoid this.