T.C. Hollingsworth wrote (on Sat 07-Apr-2012 at 18:02 +0100): .... > > Can anybody point be in the direction of what is going on here, > > and how I may be able to restore some stability to my Fedora 16 > > installation, which is currently falling over about once a day at > > random. > Well, the real fix here is to figure out why /dev/sdb5 isn't > mounting. Should I expect failure to mount a partition I am not using to bring the entire system down ? It mounts well enough at boot time... so I'm unclear why it would need to be remounted. > Do you get any messages from the kernel at that time? It looks > like you just grepped for systemd. The messages I clipped out of /var/log/messages where the last few just before it died (and turned off logging). > To workaround the issue, you can switch /dev/sdb5 to be mounted on- > demand when you first access it, instead of on boot, by adding > "comment=systemd.automount" to the options section of the device in > /etc/fstab. Or, you can tell systemd that you don't care that the > device can't be mounted by adding "nofail" to the options section > instead. OK. I'll add the "nofail"... but I am astonished that a disc failure will crash the system. In my experience disc failure is not *that* unusual ! Thanks, Chris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
