Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jun 14 2019, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >
> >> On Jun 13 2019, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> > IMHO these log messages are a bit silly --
> >> >
> >> > [ **] (3 of 3) A start job is running for /dev/sda4 (1min 5s / 1min 36s)
> >> > ...
> >> > [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/sda4.
> >> > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for /dev/sda4.
> >> > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap.
> >> > ...
> >> > Activating swap /dev/sda4...
> >> > ...
> >> > [ 450.650000] Adding 524284k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:524284k FS
> >> > ...
> >> > [ OK ] Activated swap /dev/sda4.
> >>
> >> That just means that the timeout is maybe too short,
> >
> > Adding swap isn't that complicated.
>
> It's not about adding swap, it's about adding the device node. You
> cannot run swapon until the device node exists.
>
Being that this is devtmpfs, the kernel creates the device node then
notifies udev, right?
> > The device isn't late, swapon() is late (compared to Debian 3 or Debian
> > 4).
>
> No, the device node shows up late. That's a user-space operation,
> carried out by udev.
>
I guess udev (which is part of systemd) took too long to notify the
systemd unit? Or the kernel took too long to notify udev?
--
> Andreas.
>
>
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