8 minute Upstart delay during LTSP client boot

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Matthew,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Matthew Wyneken wrote:
> kernel: [   10.606621] init: plymouth state changed from post-start to running
> kernel: [   10.611110] init: mountall state changed from starting to pre-start
> kernel: [   10.615586] init: mountall state changed from pre-start to spawned
> kernel: [   10.620646] init: mountall main process (495)
> kernel: [   10.625214] init: Handling started event
> kernel: [   10.631363] init: mountall main process (495) became new process (496)
> kernel: [   10.640544] init: mountall main process (496) executable changed
> kernel: [   10.645152] init: mountall state changed from spawned to post-start
> kernel: [   10.649727] init: mountall state changed from post-start to running
> kernel: [   10.654354] init: Handling started event
> kernel: [   10.715882] init: Connection from private client
> kernel: [   15.064034] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> kernel: [  493.598743] init: Handling mounted event
> kernel: [  493.647087] init: Handling all-swaps event
> kernel: [  493.651883] init: Handling mounted event
> kernel: [  493.656689] init: Handling mounted event
> kernel: [  493.661594] init: Handling mounted event
> kernel: [  493.666240] init: Handling mounted event
> kernel: [  493.670835] init: Handling mounted event
> kernel: [  493.675233] init: resolvconf goal changed from stop to start

So what's unusual here is that, after mountall starts, there are no
'mounted' events seen by upstart during this whole delay.  That suggests the
problem here has something to do with mountall, but I have no idea what kind
of problem that might be.

I recommend editing /etc/init/mountall.conf to comment out the 'console
output' line, and appending '--verbose' to the 'exec mountall' line.  This
should give you a log file at /var/log/upstart/mountall.log after boot that
may provide some more insight into where things are hanging.

-- 
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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