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tpfkanep

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 121

[SOLVED] Mounting local filesystems [Busy]

Just finished installing arch. Everything went ok, but I had a problem with auto-mounting my other HDD (which contains Ubuntu and XP) from arch. I played around with HAL settings as per the wiki article, but I somehow messed up something, as I got dbus errors.

arch booted, and I logged in as my user. X autostarted, but no input device (keyboard and mouse) worked. I switched my PC off with the powerdown button, and since then I cannot get my home directory. I managed to get rid of the dbus errors, but now I need help to sort out:
- No directory, logging in with HOME=/. I tried to do a fsck.jfs : No luck. fsck.jfs helped while I was running arch in VirtualBox when I got a "No directory, logging in with HOME=/" message. Ref: powering off and "losing" home folder?. /home is a separate partition.

my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda1 / jfs defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot jfs defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda5 /tmp jfs defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda6 /home jfs defaults,noatime 0 1

- Mounting local filesystems [Busy]: This message is displayed at bootup. For a long time. After a while arch displays: cannot create link /etc/mtab~ perhaps there is a stale lock? I ran top as root, but I can only see one user (root). I logged in as myself, and used exit and logout, but the stale lock message is still displayed. I looked in /var/lock, but the folder is empty.

Please help.

Last edited by tpfkanep (2010-04-11 14:01:05)

Mac Tzu

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 38

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Re: [SOLVED] Mounting local filesystems [Busy]

Ok Quick Question,

I just want to ask the obvious question first do you have Jfs Utils installed ?

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tpfkanep

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 121

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting local filesystems [Busy]

Yes (a pacman -Qs jfs confirms this).

Last edited by tpfkanep (2010-04-11 12:25:43)

tpfkanep

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 121

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting local filesystems [Busy]

I am all OK now. Took a chance and deleted /etc/mtab~; and what do you know: I am back in business.

Now to sort out mounting my other HDD...