Bug 179199

Summary:	System hangs during "Checking root filesystem" after using an external hard drive
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Friedrich Gräter <graeter>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Friedrich Gräter 2007-05-20 10:39:05 UTC

If I used an external hard drive on my notebook (with USB 2) in the last session of Gentoo Linux, my system refuses sometimes to boot. Init hangs at the step "Checking root filesystem". After rebooting the computer again, the system starts correctly most times.

It makes no difference whether I unmount the hard drive before shutting down the system or not. This problem doesn't occurs every time, but it occurs since I use this external hard drive and it seems never to occur if I don't switch the drive on in the last session.

The system is still responsive, but it seems to wait for something. The external hard drive is formated to ext3 an mounted to /mnt/usb.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using an external hard drive
2. Rebooting the computer


Actual Results:  
The system hangs during "Checking root filesystem"

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-06-11 05:04:05 UTC

are you sure it's doing nothing ?  try doing `ctrl+c` or enable magic sysrq and query the system state

Comment 2 Friedrich Gräter 2007-06-11 07:42:02 UTC

No it does not react on CTRL+C and other keys. However the keyboard seems still to be active (I can change the status light of the Caps-Lock key).

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-12-17 19:57:38 UTC

you should enable usb debugging in the kernel to see if transactions are going on there