Re: boot fails "Can't stat /dev/da0a: No such file or directory"

From: Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 11:59:25 +0200
On 0503T1922, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> On 3/05/2016 06:42 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> > On 0502T0643, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> >> On 30/04/2016 06:53 PM, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I have a USB disk that I use for backup. Up till now, it's mounted
> >>> without any problems at boot time. After updating to -current as of
> >>> yesterday, it doesn't mount and causes the boot to fail.
> >>>
> >>> My /etc/fstab looks like:
> >>>
> >>>     # Device    Mountpoint    FStype    Options    Dump    Pass#
> >>>
> >>>     /dev/ada0s1a    /        ufs    rw    1    1
> >>>     /dev/ada0s1b    none        swap    sw    0    0
> >>>     /dev/da0a    /backup        ufs    rw,late    1    1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I tried adding the "late" to fix the problem, but it doesn't help.
> >>>
> >>> The error message is:
> >>>
> >>>     /dev/ada0s1a: clean...
> >>>     Can't stat /dev/da0a: No such file or directory
> >>>     Unknown error; help!
> >>>     ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> (hand transcribed - maybe typos)
> >>>
> >>> Can anybody help, please.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>     Graham
> >> Sorry, I forgot to mention...
> >>
> >> I commented out that line from fstab which allows the boot to complete.
> >> I can then manually mount it without any problems. It looks like the
> >> device doesn't get created early enough.
> > Have you run mergemaster after upgrade?  In particular, do you have
> > the current version of /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal?
> >
> Thanks for replying, Edward. Yes I've installed that file. The delay
> that Dave told me about has fixed the problem.

Still, it would be nice if this worked by default.  The updated
mountcritlocal script should wait for USB to release root tokens
if the mount initially fails,
Received on Tue May 03 2016 - 07:59:32 UTC

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