Yet Another cannot boot thread

I was more concerned with this warning in dmesg have changed usbrootfs to use ext3 now.

[   35.595458] alg: hash: Test 1 failed for mv-hmac-sha1
[   35.603134] 00000000: 0c aa 9f d5 37 c3 79 3a 91 d9 21 5f 42 2b 2c 24a

In regards to swap file despite having 512MB not even 6-7MB MB is getting used

root@debian:/etc/init.d# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           120        116          3          0          3         84
-/+ buffers/cache:         29         91
Swap:          511          0        511

root@debian:/etc/init.d# sysctl  vm.swappiness
vm.swappiness = 60

Should I change swappiness if yes then how much ?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/01/2013 03:10AM by dinjo.

dinjo Wrote:
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> I was more concerned with this warning in dmesg
> have changed usbrootfs to use ext3 now.
>

> [   35.595458] alg: hash: Test 1 failed for
> mv-hmac-sha1
> [   35.603134] 00000000: 0c aa 9f d5 37 c3 79 3a
> 91 d9 21 5f 42 2b 2c 24a
>

This is the kernel bug for cryptodev HW acceleration. I have yet to find a patch for it. I recalled someone posted about this here in the forum, but could not find it.

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Its fine unless its a known thing

Yes. It's a known bug. As log as your openssl works, I don't think it's matters.

If anybody is aware that this does cause problem with openssl, please post.

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I can't get the netconsole in edit mode i.e when i hit enter it does not shows me prompt instead it keeps on loading

For the second nc command, instead of

nc -u 192.168.1.100 6666

try

nc -up 6666 192.168.1.100 6666

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yes i have been using that command itself , also i saw some other threads where some other people were also not able to get into edit mode in net console.

Seems like netconsole does not come up until 33 seconds maybe thats the reason the previous log are not shown

[   23.121018] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   23.136067] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   33.626464] netpoll: netconsole: local port 6666
[   33.631114] netpoll: netconsole: local IPv4 address 192.168.1.110
[   33.637304] netpoll: netconsole: interface 'eth0'
[   33.642029] netpoll: netconsole: remote port 6666
[   33.646869] netpoll: netconsole: remote IPv4 address 192.168.1.104

dinjo,

Your HDD or kernel is taking too long to boot up. It took 23 seconds before the disk is fully recognized, and then at that time it took another 10 seconds for netconsole to run. And eth0 was already up by this time. As comparison, mine takes about 6 seconds on the GoFlex Net (instead of 23), and eth0 was not up yet at that time.

A sure way to tell what's really going on is to connect serial console and observe the kernel booting activities.

Here is the hint in your dmesg showed where was that 17 second gap:

[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:114
[    0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 21474ms
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[   17.793460] Calibrating delay loop... 1191.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=5955584)
[   17.883251] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[   17.883353] Security Framework initialized

My dmesg shows:

[    0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 21474ms
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    1.293016] Calibrating delay loop... 1191.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=5955584)
[    1.382806] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/2013 12:14AM by bodhi.

Big thumbs up from me for your persistance, bodhi!
If this ever gets resolved, dinjo should at least treat you with a free beer or something similar (http://startupstats.com/startup-trend-beer-2012-03/). ;-)

ingmar_k,

> (http://startupstats.com/startup-trend-beer-2012-03/). ;-)

:)) thanks for the interesting link.

I suspected that dinjo's rootfs is taking more time to mount then normal.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/2013 01:13AM by bodhi.

Hmm,.. not sure why its a delay but I'll just let it go but i could not figure out why its not allowing me to go to command mode in netconsole i.e its in readonly mode.

I cannot get my second partition to get mounted it has different label and i guess rootfs should get mounted and should boot but as soon as i add in fstab goflex does not boot , does anyone has a sample working fstab ?

Also for turnning off device i do shutdown now -h or poweroff but it gets turned off in 2 seconds is it getting shutdown correctly ?

dinjo Wrote:
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> Hmm,.. not sure why its a delay but I'll just let
> it go but i could not figure out why its not
> allowing me to go to command mode in netconsole
> i.e its in readonly mode.

It meant your netconsole server nc or socat... Is not working correctly. The box side is working. Tried different programs?

>
> I cannot get my second partition to get mounted it
> has different label and i guess rootfs should get
> mounted and should boot but as soon as i add in
> fstab goflex does not boot , does anyone has a
> sample working fstab ?

Dont mount in fstab. Add a mount command in /etc/rc.local.

> Also for turnning off device i do shutdown now -h
> or poweroff but it gets turned off in 2 seconds is
> it getting shutdown correctly ?

If the HDD is attached, it will take longer to go down completely. So wait 10 seconds.

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I'm currently mounting HDD from rc.local but i want it to automount since i wanted all process to have clean startup and clean shutdown(update-rc,d) which at the moment may not be happening , ex- The drive may not get mounted but a torrent client would start and would fail saying no data is found since HDD is not mounted at that time.

dinjo,

What is you /etc/fstab looks like?

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root@debian:~# cat -v -e -t /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.$
#$
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>$
/dev/root      /               ext3    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1$
tmpfs          /tmp            tmpfs   defaults          0       0$
/dev/sda2      /media/Data     ext3    noatime           0       0$

Hmm. not sure what was wrong earlier the other drive seems working now.