slowwness at boot (hours)

[John Van Ostrand]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:24 -0500, Marc Lijour wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have an issue with my RAID1 system. I use Mandriva 2006 on x86_64.
> 
> First the system hangs while running fsck on one partition. I solved this by 
> booting on a live cd and running fsck from there. I ran fsck -y /dev/sd{a,b}
> 5.



Using a Journalled file systems like ext3 will alleviate an extended
fsck in the event of a hard shutdown.


> From the live cd, I also ran mdadm --examine <drives> and it tells me the 
> drives are in sync.
> 
> Now, I reboot from the hard drive and I get one array which is missing a 
> drive. But worse, the boot process is extremely slow (it can take hours to 
> fire one daemon). I have also a couple of bad looking reports such 
> as /dev/tty0 does not exist, and some other config files missing. Would you 
> know what is causing this? Is the data corrupted? Can I get it back?


Check your DNS. If a service is reliant on DNS it can take some time to
come up, however I would expected minutes per daemon, not an hour.

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