Boot hangs 3 times in 4, ureadahead out of memory
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ureadahead (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ureadahead
Stock Kubuntu Lucid, fresh install. /var is on root. One time in four system will boot, other times it hangs after listing amount of shared and non-shared memory. After successful boot, I see complaints about ureadahead out of memory in the kernel log. This is an i7 quad core running in 32-bit mode, 6gigs of RAM and the PAE kernel.
Problem goes away after I removed ureadahead files from /etc/init. So ureadahead is sometimes--but not consistently--doing something for which it does not find it'll fit in memory. Its failure is apparently keeping the rest of the boot process from proceeding. Problem goes away 100% if ureadahead is not attempted during boot.
Dump of system version:
vandys@bruiser$ lsb_release -r 22-generic- pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 23:14:23 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Release: 10.04
vandys@bruiser$ uname -a
Linux bruiser 2.6.32-