On 12/06/2020 16:01, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote: > Hi, Hi, I know *nothing* about Odroid
> I'm running Devuan Beowulf on an Odroid C2 mini computer. Since it's internal > flash disk is limited, I run it with an external usb drive attached. > When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process hangs forever. I can > ping it, so networking is started, but I cannot login, because sshd is not > running. Since this is a headless system, I cannot see boot messages to find > out where it hangs. I cannot attach a monitor because I have no suitable > cable. > > Any ideas how to debug this problem? I would inspect services which start after networking but before ssh. A udev rule can easily hang a boot as the calls often block. I would then try only starting essential services (reduce the runlevel if possible, only networking & ssh). > > This is the fstab entry: > > LABEL=Elements /hdd ext4 defaults 0 2 I would replace the LABEL statement with the partition id (/dev/hdd1 ?), parsing label's and uuid's can occasionally trip up. > > Booting with this entry commented out works fine, and I can mount the disk as > normal after boot. But this way many daemons are missing its data and have to > be restarted after mount. Restarting a service as a root login is not the same as starting a service at boot. Any one of these services may be hanging the boot but not hang from a root login (commonly root's environment, e.g. $PATH masks an issue). This advice is worth exactly what you paid for it, good luck. > > Jochen > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
