[feisty] intermittent dropping to init shell

[Dave Gilbert]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

(Feisty upto date as of 31st March and seen on one a few weeks ago)
Sometimes when I boot, feisty isn't completing the init and dropping me to the initramfs (?)
shell with no errors (other than the job control message).
If I just reboot it then boots fine; I haven't seen this in anything prior to feisty; this machine
has been dist-upgrade'd to feisty.

From that shell I can see that the device is present in /dev/disk/by-uuid,
so I wonder if it is sometype of race.

fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=9d3f7a30-72ef-4d24-947c-3efc6bd9e6b6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/evms/lvm/totality/cross /discs/cross ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/evms/lvm/totality/misc /discs/misc ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/evms/lvm/totality/local /usr/local ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/md0 /home ext3 defaults 0 3
# /dev/hda2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=f2897991-a549-4e6d-a4a8-4d4286b671dc none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/hdg2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=a15bebc3-49b8-4b61-a64e-d09335a0c3f1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hde /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

The / is just a normal single partition on hda1; it shows as being via
evms on a df:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/evms/hda1 7692876 6766448 535652 93% /

hda is an onboard AMD-766 PATA interface.

I'm not seeing any errors to debug further why it's stopped at that shell -
 suggests from what else to look at when it fails again would be appreciated.

Note, /home is an md raid1

Suggestions welcome, but it's only about a 1 in 10 boot times bug so I can't
necessarily try stuff that fast.

Dave

[Giovanni Premuda (gpremuda)]

Try adding

udevsettle --timeout=10

in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init before line:

log_begin_msg "Mounting root file system..."

and then rebuild initrd with:

sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

OK, I've added that and we'll see how it goes.

One question; where does all the logging from the initramfs tools go so that I can look at it when it lands at a shell?

Dave

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Feisty is not supported anymore.