T.C. Hollingsworth wrote (on Sat 07-Apr-2012 at 18:02 +0100):
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> 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