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Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

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andreimpopescu@gmail.com wrote on 6/29/19 1:15 AM:
> On Vi, 28 iun 19, 11:26:43, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> andreimpopescu@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM:
>>> On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on
>>>> with the boot process?
>>>
>>> You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output
>>> of 'lsblk -f' with all partitions mounted.
>>>
>>> It would also be useful to know what init system you are using
>>> (ls -l /sbin/init) and if your mounts have any specials (LVM, encrypted,
>>> NFS, RAID, etc.) basically anything besides plain extX filesystems
>>> mounted from internal drives.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Andrei
>>>
>> No need for all that!
> 
> Hmm...
>   
>> All my mounts are local PATA and SATA drives. The SATA drives are on an
>> adapter card. All the file systems are xfs, ext2, ext4 or swap and use
>> either /dir/dir, LABEL= or UUID=.
>> All very vanilla. No LVM, encrypted, NFS, RAID, etc. Doesn't make any
>> difference as *all* of the mounts are failing on the first pass!
>>
>> I found a work around on a forum. Put "nofail" in the options field of
>> fstab. So now my entries contain "defaults,nofail" or "sw,pri=100,nofail" in
>> the options field.
>>
>> Doesn't make any difference though. All the
>>     Dependency failed for ...
>>      Timeout waiting for ...
>> messages still occur, they just don't stop the boot process and the mounts
>> get done successfully later on.(??)
>>
>> I can't tell what might have caused this as I don't re-boot after every
>> update, just when an update to the kernel occurs. I think it was about the
>> time that systemd was implemented as the boot screen looked different when
>> the mount failures started happening.
> 
> There are a lot of eyes on this list and someone might spot something
> that you don't even think might have an impact.
> 
> But then it's your system, your rules ;)
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
> 

OK! Be my guest!!

One thing I have noticed is that it seems to do everything 2 
or 3 times while it is booting, and it takes about 30 mins 
before my desktop (xfce) is up and functioning.

TNX!

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Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail. andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-06-24 09:10 +0200
  Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail. Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2019-06-28 18:30 +0200
    Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail. andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-06-29 08:20 +0200
      Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail. Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2019-07-01 03:50 +0200
        Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail. andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-07-01 09:00 +0200

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