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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly [RESOLVED]
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:02:54
Message-Id: 17ff3c8a-9ec3-5fb0-584d-9c0209c35edf@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly [RESOLVED] by n952162
1 Incidentally, in order to debug that, I set the /etc/rc.conf *rc_logger*
2 variable to YES:
3
4 rc_logger="YES"
5
6 I'm not sure why that's not the default, as it appears to be on ubuntu,
7 assuming that similar-seeming functionality really is similar.
8
9
10
11 On 2020-03-18 19:35, n952162 wrote:
12 >
13 > Okay, after many hours of investigation and experimentation, I finally
14 > figured this out.
15 >
16 > For many years now, I have written my /etc/fstab using the
17 > /dev/disk/by-id directory, because I think it's easier to keep track
18 > of the names there - it's the only way to do it symbolically.
19 >
20 > It's always struck me that nobody else does that and I've wondered
21 > why...  now I know...
22 >
23 > It turns out, that, now, on my computer, those names aren't set up
24 > yet.  The "missing" devices caused the localmounts service to fail -
25 > partially or fully, randomly - including for the swaps.
26 >
27 > When I go through the nasty process of using blkid(8) and specifying
28 > the *UUID=* device name in fstab, then the problem goes away.
29 >
30 >
31 >
32 > On 2020-03-17 13:37, n952162 wrote:
33 >>
34 >> There's new information on this, and new questions...
35 >>
36 >> I discovered that not only are my swaps not mounted, but the other
37 >> filesystems listed in /etc/fstab aren't, either.
38 >>
39 >> These are, apparently, mounted by the localmount RC service.
40 >>
41 >> Its status is *started*.  But if I /restart/ it, then my fstab
42 >> filesystems get mounted.
43 >>
44 >> Question: /etc/init.d/localhost says:
45 >>
46 >> description="Mounts disks and swap according to /etc/fstab."
47 >>
48 >> but I can't see where that script mounts swaps.  Is the description
49 >> obsolete?
50 >>
51 >> Question 2: how can one see the output from the RC "e-trace"
52 >> statements (e.g. ebegin/eend)?
53 >>
54 >> I don't find it in /var/log/*
55 >>
56 >>
57 >> On 2020-03-04 09:09, n952162 wrote:
58 >>> Hi,
59 >>>
60 >>> I have 3 swap devices and files.  At boot, it seems indeterminate
61 >>> which ones get "mounted" (as swap areas).
62 >>>
63 >>> Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted?
64 >>>
65 >>> Here are the swap lines from my fstab:
66 >>>
67 >>> #LABEL=swap        none        swap        sw        0 0
68 >>>
69 >>>  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_DT01ACA300_xxxxxxxx-part1    none
70 >>> swap    sw,pri=10    0 0
71 >>>
72 >>> /swap    none    swap    sw,pri=5    0 0
73 >>>
74 >>> /lcl/WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-yyyyyyyyyy/1/swap        none swap   
75 >>> sw,pri=1    0 0
76 >>>

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Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly [RESOLVED] Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>