[FEATURE]Mounting Local Filesystems FAIL but OK [swap activation FAIL]

cfr · 2012-02-28 00:57:24

When I boot, I get a FAIL for the activation of swap among the boot messages. I've searched the forums etc. for similar issues but the causes I've found don't seem to apply in this case: entries for my external drive in fstab have "nofail" in the options; I don't have lines for /dev/(pts,shm); I don't have duplicate lines. Swap does seem to be activated despite the message which I understand means it is likely to refer to another error but I'm not sure what. I've double checked the UUID for the swap partition and it is still correct.

$ swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda4                               partition       9227260 0       -1
$ grep tmp fstab
tmpfs           /tmp    tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime     0       0
# in debian, /tmp seems not to be distinct but tmpfs is used for /lib/init/rw 
$ grep shm fstab
# and /run and /run/shm even though these are not listed in fstab
$ grep pts fstab
$ grep swap fstab
#/dev/sda4: swap
UUID=<uuid matching output from blkid> none swap sw 0 0
$ sort fstab > /tmp/a
$ sort fstab | uniq > /tmp/b
$ diff /tmp/b /tmp/a
1a2,4
> 
> 
> 
$ dmesg | grep fail
[    0.041708] x2apic not enabled, IRQ remapping init failed
[    2.164387]  pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_ERROR), returned control mask: 0x1d
$ dmesg | grep swap
[   15.099184] Adding 9227260k swap on /dev/sda4.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:9227260k

Is either of the reported fails related to the alleged fail for swap (since activating swap doesn't really seem to be the problem)?

Last edited by cfr (2012-04-04 22:00:50)

tomegun · 2012-02-28 11:58:12

cfr wrote:

When I boot, I get a FAIL for the activation of swap among the boot messages. I've searched the forums etc. for similar issues but the causes I've found don't seem to apply in this case: entries for my external drive in fstab have "nofail" in the options; I don't have lines for /dev/(pts,shm); I don't have duplicate lines. Swap does seem to be activated despite the message which I understand means it is likely to refer to another error but I'm not sure what. I've double checked the UUID for the swap partition and it is still correct.
$ swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda4                               partition       9227260 0       -1
$ grep tmp fstab
tmpfs           /tmp    tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime     0       0
# in debian, /tmp seems not to be distinct but tmpfs is used for /lib/init/rw 
$ grep shm fstab
# and /run and /run/shm even though these are not listed in fstab
$ grep pts fstab
$ grep swap fstab
#/dev/sda4: swap
UUID=<uuid matching output from blkid> none swap sw 0 0
$ sort fstab > /tmp/a
$ sort fstab | uniq > /tmp/b
$ diff /tmp/b /tmp/a
1a2,4
> 
> 
> 
$ dmesg | grep fail
[    0.041708] x2apic not enabled, IRQ remapping init failed
[    2.164387]  pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_ERROR), returned control mask: 0x1d
$ dmesg | grep swap
[   15.099184] Adding 9227260k swap on /dev/sda4.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:9227260k
Is either of the reported fails related to the alleged fail for swap (since activating swap doesn't really seem to be the problem)?

There was recently a bug report about this (against util-linux-2.21-1). It turned out that the problem was actually that mounting local filesystems mistakenly printed FAILED, even though it succeeded. Could you check your /var/log/boot to see if you might have misread the line?

This should have been fixed in util-linux-2.21-2 (in testing at the moment).

If this is not solved for you, please open a bug report.

cfr · 2012-02-28 22:48:04

Sorry, yes. I didn't know I could retrieve the boot messages there (I tried using dmesg) and I must have misread the line. It is indeed a FAIL for mounting local filesystems:

Tue Feb 28 00:00:47 2012: :: Mounting Local Filesystems    [BUSY]    [FAIL]

I'm not using testing so I'll wait for the fix. (Local filesystems obviously are being mounted or nothing would work so I take it that it is a relatively harmless bug!)

Thanks for your help.

tomegun · 2012-02-28 22:50:36

Hm, it is a bit odd that you are seeing this if you don't use testing. AFAIK, the bug was only present in 2.21-1 which never reached core... Please file a bug report if this is not fixed when you eventually get 2.21-x.

tomegun · 2012-02-28 22:51:53

Oh, I should add that it is completely harmless (assuming it is the bug I think it is). The call to "mount -a" simply returned an error code instead of success, even if everything worked as expected :-)

djgera · 2012-02-28 23:04:57

Another off-by-one eye error

cfr · 2012-02-29 00:04:56

tomegun,

OK. I'll watch for it. Just for info:

$ pacman -Ss util-linux
core/util-linux 2.20.1-2 (base) [installed]
    Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux
multilib/lib32-util-linux 2.20.1-1 [installed]
    Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux (32-bit)

djgera,

I think they need dotted lines - like in some tables of contents - for those of us whose eyes don't behave quite as they should!

djgera · 2012-02-29 00:15:23

cfr wrote:

djgera,
I think they need dotted lines - like in some tables of contents - for those of us whose eyes don't behave quite as they should!

Not a bad idea (since mostly in these days using kms with bigger wide-screen size). But maybe somehing like "in oposite" will look better than dots everywhere on screen:

[DONE] message here

kevin89 · 2012-03-03 08:59:39

I'm having the same 'issue'. Is there an open bugreport on this? And the best thing to do is just ignore and wait for an update?

Last edited by kevin89 (2012-03-03 08:59:47)

tomegun · 2012-03-03 10:25:46

@kevin89: you should only see this if you have util-linux-2.21-1 from testing, but not with util-linux-2.21-2 and newer (also from testing). Otherwise, please open a bug report (including your fstab and /var/log/boot).

cfr · 2012-03-05 02:57:53

Do you want bugs filed even for util-linux-2.20.1-2 (from stable)? I'm definitely not using testing...

tomegun · 2012-03-05 08:05:08

cfr: if this is still an issue when the next util-linux moves to stable, please file a report.

Thanks,

Tom

cfr · 2012-03-25 00:51:40

I'm still seeing this error (and last did pacman -syu yesterday). pacman reports util-linux at 2.21-6.

Would you still like me to file a bug?

rtfreedman · 2012-03-25 19:57:44

I have it too in my /var/log/boot - at least since
Tue Nov 22 22:08:19 2011: :: Mounting Local Filesystems [BUSY] [FAIL] ...
Sun Mar 25 14:12:23 2012: :: Mounting Local Filesystems [BUSY] [FAIL]
on every boot

cfr · 2012-03-30 20:56:57

Note: temporarily removing "[solved]" tag to see if a developer might let me know if I should still file a bug or not. Hope this is acceptable.

tomegun · 2012-03-30 22:47:51

If it does not work for you, please file a bug report. When you do, please summarise the important points so that people don't have to read this whole thread. There will be a new util-linux in testing very soon, that you might want to try with before filing the report (I'm just giving it a last test before pushing it atm).

cfr · 2012-04-02 21:05:06

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29241

Apparently it is not a bug but the intended behaviour...

Last edited by cfr (2012-04-04 21:59:28)

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[FEATURE]Mounting Local Filesystems FAIL but OK [swap activation FAIL]

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