Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:46:12 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Graham Menhennitt <graham@menhennitt.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot fails "Can't stat /dev/da0a: No such file or directory" Message-ID: <20160510084612.GA2215@brick> In-Reply-To: <aaae0f54-4236-af0f-b926-afb217b24f01@menhennitt.com.au> References: <57247294.4050607@menhennitt.com.au> <57266A7E.1070500@menhennitt.com.au> <20160503084251.GB5892@brick> <57286DC6.3010403@menhennitt.com.au> <20160503095925.GC5892@brick> <4ec4e751-5ac7-d793-9356-5af4327b824d@menhennitt.com.au> <20160505114123.GA1289@brick> <aaae0f54-4236-af0f-b926-afb217b24f01@menhennitt.com.au>
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On 0508T0944, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > On 5/05/2016 09:41 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > > On 0505T1847, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > >> On 3/05/2016 07:59 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > >>> On 0503T1922, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > >>>> On 3/05/2016 06:42 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > >>>>> On 0502T0643, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > >>>>>> On 30/04/2016 06:53 PM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > >>>>>>> Hi all, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I have a USB disk that I use for backup. Up till now, it's mounted > >>>>>>> without any problems at boot time. After updating to -current as of > >>>>>>> yesterday, it doesn't mount and causes the boot to fail. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> My /etc/fstab looks like: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> /dev/ada0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > >>>>>>> /dev/ada0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > >>>>>>> /dev/da0a /backup ufs rw,late 1 1 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I tried adding the "late" to fix the problem, but it doesn't help. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> The error message is: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> /dev/ada0s1a: clean... > >>>>>>> Can't stat /dev/da0a: No such file or directory > >>>>>>> Unknown error; help! > >>>>>>> ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> (hand transcribed - maybe typos) > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Can anybody help, please. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>>> Graham > >>>>>> Sorry, I forgot to mention... > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I commented out that line from fstab which allows the boot to complete. > >>>>>> I can then manually mount it without any problems. It looks like the > >>>>>> device doesn't get created early enough. > >>>>> Have you run mergemaster after upgrade? In particular, do you have > >>>>> the current version of /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal? > >>>>> > >>>> Thanks for replying, Edward. Yes I've installed that file. The delay > >>>> that Dave told me about has fixed the problem. > >>> Still, it would be nice if this worked by default. The updated > >>> mountcritlocal script should wait for USB to release root tokens > >>> if the mount initially fails, > >>> > >> Ok, I tried to do a bit of diagnosis here. I took out the delay from > >> /boot/loader.conf and I added "set -x" to the top of > >> /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (before the start of the mountcritlocal_start() > >> function definition). I then rebooted. I didn't see any shell command > >> output from the "set -x" before the error occurred. That means that the > >> error is happening before /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal is being read. > >> > >> When I put the delay back in and boot, I see the shell commands after > >> the filesystems are mounted (and, hence, after the error would have > >> occurred if the delay wasn't there). So I don't think mountcritlocal is > >> going to help me. > >> > >> I'm not sure what else to try. if you have any suggestions, I can do > >> some experimenting. Is there a simple way to capture the output from the > >> rc.d scripts? > > Huh, you've nailed it - it was a different script, /etc/rc.d/fsck; it > > runs before mountcritlocal. Could you try the following patch? You can > > apply it directly to /etc/rc.d: > > Yep, that worked. I saw > Can't stat /dev/da0a: No such file or directory > Then a bit later > Restarting file system checks > which succeeded. > > Thank you, Edward. Thanks for testing; committed in a slightly different form as r299349.
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