[systemd-devel] Mounting a partition at the *right* time

[Richard Maw]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:22:48PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Jan 04 15:50:12 OpenELEC systemd[1]: Started Apply Kernel Variables.
> Jan 04 15:51:37 OpenELEC systemd[1]: Job dev-mmcblk0p1.device/start timed out.
> Jan 04 15:51:37 OpenELEC systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-mmcblk0p1.device.
> Jan 04 15:51:37 OpenELEC systemd[1]: Dependency failed for sdcard mount script.
> Jan 04 15:51:37 OpenELEC systemd[1]: Job storage-.kodi-.local-storage-sdcard.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'.
> Jan 04 15:51:37 OpenELEC systemd[1]: Job dev-mmcblk0p1.device/start failed with result 'timeout'.
> 
> So you need to figure out why the device does not appear in the alloted time.
> Does it need more than 1.5 minutes to initialize? Are some modules only
> loaded later on or something else prevents the detection from hapenning?

I've seen it happen when our old friend CONFIG_FHANDLE hasn't been turned on.
I think it's still not turned on by default for ARM systems,
and the kernel and systemd version looks old enough that it doesn't support the /proc/self/fdinfo way.