slowwness at boot (hours)

[Marc Lijour]

On March 31, 2006 11:50 am, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> 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.

My bad, I should have mentioned I use ext3.
Precisely the problem started with a hang while the system was "recovering the 
journal".

> > 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.

All services are slow. My first guess was that the raid arrays are syncing, 
but I am not sure anymore. Because I don't have a prompt it is hard to say.
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