On Thursday 29 Jul 2010 01:12:03 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-07-29 00:47, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 28 Jul 2010 23:02:31 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-07-28 22:32, Peter Nikolic wrote:
when i reboot the system (hopefully very rarely once i get it stable) it unmounts /home no problem but seems not to unmount / as when i power the system backup up it takes an age to load grub
Slow grub, with reiserfs filesystem? I have seen that previously, but with hibernated systems. A separate /boot partition in ext2 is required.
For the rest, I dunno. Bugzilla, I guess.
Hi Carlos
Well the slow problem is down to the fact that the / partition gets blitzed by the failure to unmount it prior to shut down , I dont do hibernate even on the laptop so no ext* is needed that is one of the reasons i do not hibernate is the ext requirement
The problem is the same.
If the / partition was "blitzed", whatever that means, the log has to be replayed in memory by grub code before it can attempt to read the kernel and load it. This process is slow because it has been reported broken for reiserfs since 11.1 at least and will not be repaired. Remember that we use grub 1 and current version is 2, so "1" is not maintained upstream. Instead the oS guys do what they can with lot of patches.
The given solution is to install /boot in a small separate partition formatted as ext2 - like it or not.
Understood? >:-)
not a hope in hell or maybe hell will have to freeze over before that happens ie never ever . :-)
That goes for the slowness of grub. Known problem, WONTFIX.
And yes, that the root partition is not properly closed, is another matter, and you should report that one in a bugzilla. IMO.
Humm yes the worst bug reporting system there is the place where things that should be fixed get marked WONTFIX cus someone got out of bed the wrong side that morning ( insert sarcasm symbol of choice here)
Suggestion: disable the splash screen display both on boot and halt, so that you can see what is happenning.
Well as for it being and age old problem i have never until 11.3 come across it and i have always followed the same install setup of reiserfs for / and xfs for /home the only times i have used the ext* junk filesystems it has always junked my data totally so ther is absolutley no way on this planet i will ever use ext* at all . The only reason it is slow is because of the underlying problem of it not being unmounted correctly in the first place Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 2" 08:12 up 14:57, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.08 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org