[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#497575: initscripts: /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh starts very soon

[Noel David Torres Taño]

tags 497575 + patch
thanks

El Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:04:50 Sven Joachim escribió:
> forcemerge 386006 497575
> thanks
> 
> The problem is not new, it has already been reported in #386006, as well
> as several times in Ubuntu:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/40722
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/47850
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/118397
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/182616
> 
> On 2008-09-02 22:23 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
> 
> > I think the best solution is to check if there are devices being connected, maybe asking udev or udevd, but I do not know how to do it, and delay until then.
> 
> You can try to play around with this, but I highly doubt it would work,
> since it's the kernel that has not yet detected the device.  Actually, I
> added a line with `udevadm settle' to checkfs.sh, and it had no
> effect -- the USB memory stick that I plugged in before the reboot was
> only recognized a few seconds after checkfs.sh had run.
> 
> > Maybe checking specifically if any system to be checked is being connected.
> 
> The only real solution to this may be an event-based init system, like
> upstart that is used in Ubuntu and Fedora.  There's also a Debian
> package in experimental if you're feeling adventurous.
> 
> Sven
> 

I readed all the headlines that reportbug showed me and didn't saw that, but I'm happy it's a known issue being worked on and am sad that it is a nearly unresolvable issue at today's date.

What about this?

--- checkfs.sh.original 2008-09-02 21:45:40.000000000 +0200
+++ checkfs.sh  2008-09-03 11:22:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@
        fi

        #
+       # Wait for the system to settle if the user wants to
+       #
+       if [ -f /etc/checkfs-wait ]
+       then
+               log_action_begin_msg "Waiting for the external file systems to settle as requested"
+               source /etc/checkfs-wait
+               log_action_end_msg $?
+       fi
+
+       #
        # Check the rest of the file systems.
        #
        if [ ! -f /fastboot ] && [ ! "$BAT" ] && [ "$FSCKTYPES" != "none" ]

--- /dev/null   2008-09-02 20:47:33.502628617 +0200
+++ /usr/share/doc/initscripts/checkfs-wait.example.TO-BE-SHIPPED       2008-09-03 11:17:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Use this file if your system boot uses to miss some external disk at filesystem check time
+# For it to work copy it to /etc/checkfs-wait
+
+/bin/sleep 5

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