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#1 2012-08-12 22:14:48

abiotic
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[SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

I had a short power outage last night and apparently my PC didn't appreciate that much.
Since then, it hangs for about 1-2 minutes while mounting the filesystems. Afterwards, it seems to load just fine.
To be more specific, it hangs while mounting /dev/sda2 (which should be mounted on /home).
I figured that out after a 'shutdown -rF now' when fsck failed miserably while checking sda2.

Also note that this is still happening even after re-formatting the partition.

Any ideas?

Here's my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
UUID=49b4f420-239d-4645-9746-038b54b0f5d7 /boot ext4 relatime,defaults	0 1
UUID=dd3f343e-a123-460c-98df-aac65d6f4501 / 	ext4 relatime,defaults	0 1
UUID=c65aa4a1-6a8e-4118-8a8d-fc0f4eabba29 /usr 	ext4 relatime,defaults	0 1
UUID=a9f722f8-0914-4b1c-829a-a892a3cea7f1 /var 	ext4 relatime,defaults	0 1
UUID=914f701f-9481-47cf-96e8-d95dff47a9b4 /home ext4 relatime,defaults	0 2
UUID=7c2d02d1-ad0f-4356-a0fd-97010408a98a none 	swap 	defaults	0 0
tmpfs			   		  /tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid	0 0

The more important part of the output of blkid:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="boot" UUID="49b4f420-239d-4645-9746-038b54b0f5d7" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="914f701f-9481-47cf-96e8-d95dff47a9b4" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="SHARED" UUID="64BCFFABBCFF7640" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="root" UUID="dd3f343e-a123-460c-98df-aac65d6f4501" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="usr" UUID="c65aa4a1-6a8e-4118-8a8d-fc0f4eabba29" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda7: UUID="a9f722f8-0914-4b1c-829a-a892a3cea7f1" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda8: UUID="7c2d02d1-ad0f-4356-a0fd-97010408a98a" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda9: UUID="d7927636-167d-4215-8264-556befde22d2" TYPE="ext4"

And the last 28 lines of /var/log/boot:

Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Adjusting system time and setting kernel time zone    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Starting udev daemon    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Triggering udev uevents    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Loading user-specified modules    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Waiting for udev uevents to be processed    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Configuring virtual consoles    [BUSY] %G   [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Bringing up loopback interface    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Checking filesystems    [BUSY] boot: clean, 335/26104 files, 35537/104388 blocks
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: /dev/sda7: clean, 19296/344064 files, 750745/1375557 blocks
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: /dev/sda2: clean, 231517/32768512 files, 256267993/524289304 blocks
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012:    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Remounting root and API filesystems    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:42:05 2012: :: Mounting local filesystems    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:12 2012: :: Activating swap    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:12 2012: :: Initializing random seed    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:12 2012: :: Removing leftover files    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:13 2012: :: Setting hostname: arch    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:13 2012: :: Saving dmesg log    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:13 2012: INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Mon Aug 13 00:43:13 2012: :: Starting Syslog-NG    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:13 2012: :: Starting network    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:14 2012: :: Starting NTP Daemon    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:15 2012: :: Starting crond daemon    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:15 2012: :: Starting D-BUS system messagebus    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:15 2012: :: Starting Secure Shell Daemon    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:15 2012: :: Starting Samba Server    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:16 2012: :: Restoring ALSA Levels    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Mon Aug 13 00:43:16 2012: :: Starting Up Sensors    [BUSY]    [DONE]

Last edited by abiotic (2012-08-13 17:35:10)

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#2 2012-08-13 08:27:58

tr!x0r
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

Hi abiotic,

Do you know if you're hard drive supports SMART? You might want to use smartctl to see if you have a damaged hard drive.

This might explain the behavior.

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#3 2012-08-13 10:24:54

abiotic
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

Do you know if you're hard drive supports SMART?

Not sure.

Also worth mentioning that since I'm dual-booting w/ Sabayon, I tried to mount the partition there and it worked without problems.
And fsck -cfrv /dev/sda2 works properly on both OS and reports no problem if I run the command after they finish loading (with sda2 unmounted, of course).

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#4 2012-08-13 11:34:26

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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

Using `mount -o remount`, could you see if this is caused by one specific mountpoint? Maybe then you can strace that to see what is happening.

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#5 2012-08-13 12:03:44

abiotic
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

I don't see anything wrong here...
Is there anything specific I should be looking for when issuing the command?

Here's the output of 'mount -o remount'

proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=2023964k,nr_inodes=505991,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda6 on /usr type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda7 on /var type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
binfmt on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/abi0tic/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)

The one mountpoint causing problems is /home, as I said earlier.
If i remove it from /etc/fstab, the system boots up really fast. Afterwards, when I do a 'mount /dev/sda2 /home' I need to wait for a whole minute until it's done. Again, this is only true for Arch. Sabayon can mount sda2 on /home really fast and it doesn't seem to have any problems. I'm beginning to doubt that there's anything wrong with the partition itself.
Could something else be broken instead?

strace -c mount /dev/sda2 /home :

╔══[root]══[~]══[#]
╚══>strace -c mount /dev/sda2 /home
% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00   54.553109    54553109         1           mount
  0.00    0.000154           1       105           read
  0.00    0.000000           0        14           open
  0.00    0.000000           0        16           close
  0.00    0.000000           0         8         5 stat
  0.00    0.000000           0        11           fstat
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           lstat
  0.00    0.000000           0       102           lseek
  0.00    0.000000           0        18           mmap
  0.00    0.000000           0        10           mprotect
  0.00    0.000000           0         4           munmap
  0.00    0.000000           0         3           brk
  0.00    0.000000           0         5         1 ioctl
  0.00    0.000000           0         3         1 access
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           execve
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           uname
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           fcntl
  0.00    0.000000           0         5         3 readlink
  0.00    0.000000           0         3           getuid
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           getgid
  0.00    0.000000           0         3           geteuid
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           getegid
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           prctl
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           arch_prctl
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           fadvise64
  0.00    0.000000           0         3         1 openat
  0.00    0.000000           0         2         1 newfstatat
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00   54.553263                   331        12 total

Last edited by abiotic (2012-08-13 12:08:24)

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#6 2012-08-13 12:05:49

tr!x0r
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

What you can try is the following,

Copy data,
Delete partition,
Create partition,
Create filesystem
Copy data? :-)

I know it's a lousy fix but it might help.

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#7 2012-08-13 12:10:18

abiotic
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

As tempting as that is, I'd rather find out what's causing the problem so I know how to fix it if it happens again without having to backup and restore data.
Besides, restoring 400+ GB of data will take a looooong time.
I'll wait for a few more ideas before giving up big_smile

Last edited by abiotic (2012-08-13 12:18:32)

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#8 2012-08-13 17:34:48

abiotic
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

Fixed by restoring the system from a 2 week old backup.
/home (/dev/sda2) was left unchanged.

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#9 2012-08-14 06:17:05

tr!x0r
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Re: [SOLVED] "Mounting local filesystems" hangs at boot

abiotic wrote:

Fixed by restoring the system from a 2 week old backup.
/home (/dev/sda2) was left unchanged.

lol :-D, good to hear that the problem is solved!

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