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lalebarde
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 Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:08 pm Post subject: udev does not start at boot time |
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Please, go directly to post #6
Initial title : cloning a system with duplicate hardware fails. How to do it
New title : udev does not start at boot time
Hi,
I need to clone my gentoo desktop on a second identical hardware - not completely identical :
- one hard disk instead of two - so I adapted the fstab
- video card from same vendor (nvidia), same family, just more RAM - I did nothing
- CPU with a bit higher fraquency - I did nothing
I used rsync -a from the boot DVD to clone my system on an external storage, and another rsync -a on the new hardware - after having prepared the disk of course.
I changed the network configuration and the hostname. I wrote the MBR from Grub. That's all, and reboot.
I have some errors during booting, then I get xdm and I can enter my username & password, and finally press OK to login. Then, the X server freezes.
Any clue ?
What would be the best way / protocol to clone a system ?
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albright
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:02 am Post subject: |
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what are the boot errors?
you might try rebuilding the nvidia-drivers ...
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cwr
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:34 am Post subject: |
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A straight copy, with tar or rsync, has always worked for me. At a guess it's
some small change in the new hardware.
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lalebarde
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Thanks cwr, but it does not solve the problem.
I checked the video card :
PC1 (nominal) : | Code: | *-display
description: VGA compatible controller
produit: G92 [GeForce GTS 240]
fabriquant: nVidia Corporation
identifiant matériel: 0
information bus: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
bits: 64 bits
horloge: 33MHz
fonctionnalités: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
ressources: irq:16 mémoire:fa000000-faffffff mémoire:d0000000-dfffffff mémoire:f8000000-f9ffffff portE/S:dc00(taille=128) mémoire:fbde0000-fbdfffff |
PC2 (duplicate) : | Code: | *-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: nVidia Corporation
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0 |
from the Vendor, PC2 has a "PCI Express Nvidia GeForce GTS 240 1024 Mb". So the only difference are the version : a1 versus a2, and one less capability : rom. BTW,
is it normal to have : "display UNCLAIMED" ?
Here are the :
- dmesg : http://pastebin.com/EzpExdEf
- Xorg.0.log : http://pastebin.com/K8Fuw2C0
- lshw : http://pastebin.com/SYuqRb4x
- lspci : http://pastebin.com/5HaGkj3w
| Code: | # cat /media/0506-2F16/PCCARO/uname-a.txt
Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Fri Oct 9 19:28:18 UTC 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
Note : 2.6.30 is the version of the kernel of the live DVD, the one of the two PC is 2.6.37 |
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lalebarde
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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I rebuilt everything. No change. It seems the problem does not come from the video drivers : xdm is waiting for cupsdxdm, tty1 is waiting as tty7, tty2 to 4 are not available.
| Code: | xdm: waiting for cupsd (5 seconds)
xdm |local |nfs | * * * local: timed out waiting for cupsdxdm: timed out waiting for cupsdnfs: timed out waiting for cupsd |
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lalebarde
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If you start reading this thread, you may skip the previous posts as the problem resolution has refined
When I analyse the boot, udev does not start.
Here is my rc.log | Code: | rc shutdown logging stopped at Sun Nov 27 15:23:32 2011
rc boot logging started at Wed Dec 7 17:30:24 2011
hwclock | * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
[ ok ]
modules | * Loading module tg3 ...
hostname | * Setting hostname to VENUS ...
[ ok ]
sysctl | * Configuring kernel parameters ...
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
modules | * Loading module nvidia ...
[ ok ]
modules | * Loading module vboxdrv ...
[ ok ]
modules | * Autoloaded 3 module(s)
hibernate-cleanup | * Invalidating stale software suspend images ...
[ ok ]
lvm | * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager ...
lvm | No volume groups found
lvm | No volume groups found
lvm | No volume groups found
[ ok ]
fsck | * Checking local filesystems ...
fsck |racine: clean, 33680/256512 files, 303852/1024135 blocks
fsck |boot: clean, 286/66264 files, 80075/265008 blocks
fsck |var: clean, 233160/4104000 files, 12229774/16384000 blocks
fsck |usr: clean, 1136958/3268608 files, 11938287/13056820 blocks
fsck |home: recovering journal
fsck |home: clean, 212202/8200192 files, 27719494/32768583 blocks
fsck |Data: recovering journal
fsck |Data: clean, 1043198/43589632 files, 173241154/174335371 blocks
[ ok ]
root | * Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
[ ok ]
mtab | * Updating /etc/mtab ...
[ ok ]
localmount | * Mounting local filesystems ...
[ ok ]
procfs | * Mounting USB device filesystem [usbfs] ...
swap | * Activating swap devices ...
urandom | * Initializing random number generator ...
[ ok ]
procfs | * Mounting misc binary format filesystem ...
[ ok ]
[34m[ ok ]
bootmisc | * Creating user login records ...
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
bootmisc | * Cleaning /var/run ...
[ ok ]
bootmisc | * Wiping /tmp directory ...
[ ok ]
termencoding | * Setting terminal encoding [UTF-8] ...
alsasound | * Loading ALSA modules ...
[ ok ]
keymaps | * Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8] ...
consolefont | * Setting console font [lat9w-16] ...
net.lo | * Bringing up interface lo
net.lo | * Caching network module dependencies
alsasound | * Loading: snd-mixer-oss ...
[ ok ]
keymaps | * Loading key mappings [fr-latin9] ...
[ ok ]
alsasound | * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ...
[ ok ]
alsasound | * Loading: snd-seq-oss ...
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
alsasound | * Restoring Mixer Levels ...
alsasound |No state is present for card Creative
alsasound |Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Creative SB0880 X-Fi" "HDA:1102000d,11020044,00100000" "0x1102" "0x0044"
alsasound |Hardware is initialized using a generic method
[ ok ]
alsasound |No state is present for card Creative
alsasound | * Errors while restoring defaults, ignoring
[ ok ]
net.lo | * 127.0.0.1/8 ...
[ ok ]
net.lo | * Adding routes
net.lo | * 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 ...
[ ok ]
rc boot logging stopped at Wed Dec 7 17:30:28 2011
rc default logging started at Wed Dec 7 17:30:28 2011
dbus | * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ...
net.qtap0 | * Bringing up interface qtap0
net.eth0 | * Bringing up interface eth0
net.qtap0 | * Creating Tun/Tap interface qtap0 ...
net.eth0 | * ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist
net.eth0 | * Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware
net.eth0 | * ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start
[ ok ]
net.qtap0 | * Changing MAC address of qtap0 ...
[ ok ]
net.qtap0 | * changed to 02:5A:4B:3C:2D:1E
net.qtap0 | * null ...
[ ok ]
net.br0 | * Bringing up interface br0
net.br0 | * Creating bridge br0 ...
net.br0 | * Adding ports to br0
net.br0 | * qtap0 ...
[ ok ]
net.br0 | * 192.168.98.1/24 ...
[ ok ]
net.br0 | * Waiting for IPv6 addresses ...
[ ok ]
udev-postmount | * Doing udev cleanups
bluetooth | * Starting Bluetooth ...
[ ok ]
bluetooth | * Starting rfcomm ...
syslog-ng | * Starting syslog-ng ...
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
acpid | * Starting acpid ...
gpm | * Starting gpm ...
dcron | * Starting dcron ...
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
keytouch | * Running keytouch-init ...
[ ok ]
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 140 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 155 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 172 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 114 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 115 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 164 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 166 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 113 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 165 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 163 to scancode 786 (0x312)
keytouch |keytouch-init: Failed to set keycode:
keytouch |keycode 171 to scancode 786 (0x312)
[ ok ]
keytouch | * Starting keytouch-acpid ...
[ ok ]
[ ok ]
netmount | * ERROR: cannot start netmount as net.eth0 would not start
kvm | * ERROR: cannot start kvm as net.eth0 would not start
samba | * ERROR: cannot start samba as net.eth0 would not start
xdm | * Setting up gdm ...
bridge_forward | * Turning on forwarding for bridge interface ...
[ ok ]
postgresql-8.4 | * The following file(s) were not found in /etc/postgresql-8.4/:
postgresql-8.4 | * postgresql.conf
postgresql-8.4 | * pg_hba.conf
postgresql-8.4 | * pg_ident.conf
postgresql-8.4 | * HINT: Try:
postgresql-8.4 | * mv /Data/postgresql/8.4/data/*.conf /etc/postgresql-8.4/
postgresql-8.4 | * ERROR: postgresql-8.4 failed to start
[ ok ]
local | * Starting local
[ ok ]
rc default logging stopped at Wed Dec 7 17:30:34 2011 |
From the chrooted environment (but I am not sure this is relevant from chroot since boot is from live DVD) : | Code: | # rc-status sysinit
Runlevel: sysinit
dmesg [ stopped ]
udev [ stopped ]
devfs [ stopped ] |
Otherwise : | Code: | (chroot) livecd / # /etc/init.d/dmesg status
* status: stopped
(chroot) livecd / # /etc/init.d/udev status
* status: stopped
(chroot) livecd / # /etc/init.d/devfs status
* status: stopped |
Let's try to start them : | Code: | (chroot) livecd / # /etc/init.d/devfs start
devfs | * Mounting /dev/shm ... [ ok ]
(chroot) livecd / # /etc/init.d/udev start
udev-mount | * /dev is already mounted
udev | * Starting udevd ...
udev | * start-stop-daemon: /sbin/udevd is already running [ !! ]
udev | * ERROR: udev failed to start
(chroot) livecd / # /etc/init.d/dmesg start
(chroot) livecd / # rc-status sysinit
Runlevel: sysinit
dmesg [ started ]
udev [ stopped ]
devfs [ started ] |
That looks right - udev does not start here for good reasons.
So why does udev refuse to start on boot ?
EDIT : | Code: | # cat /media/0506-2F16/PCCARO/uname-a.txt
Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Fri Oct 9 19:28:18 UTC 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
| Code: | (chroot) livecd / # grep -i inotify /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y
(chroot) livecd / # grep -i sysfs_deprecated /usr/src/linux/.config
# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set |
| Code: | (chroot) livecd ~ # mkdir test
(chroot) livecd ~ # mount --bind / test
(chroot) livecd ~ # cd test/dev
(chroot) livecd dev # ls | egrep "null|console"
console
null |
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