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Hi. I am using Cauldron (Mageia 3 beta 2) and noticed in the last few weeks I have been getting a timed out/dependency missing error during the boot which is causing it to hang for 90 seconds, making for a very long boot up. It says there is a UUID number that is the problem, which would be related to fstab. I have no idea how to fix that. Help please! I do not know how to show logs, but if you tell me the commands I can certainly get them for you.

Thanks.

Please show your fstab, and the output of

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blkid

as root.

Apologies, but how do I do both of those? i am familiar with sudo commands, and going into su mode, but I don't seem to know how to show my fstab or run blkid. Please clarify. Thanks.

Just show the outputs of the the following commands, after switching to root via su -

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blkid
cat /etc/fstab

Here ya go. The one that says tank1 is PCBSD. Number 11 is Manjaro.

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[brian@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost brian]# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Avatar" UUID="77654ABE09CB16AE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Music" UUID="06FCFE2FFCFE191F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Win7" UUID="4D071B86134184CE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc3: LABEL="sabayon" UUID="f8394391-ccf1-4c19-b66a-5c7560684002" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc4: LABEL="tank1" UUID="16111845021244537113" UUID_SUB="12168429129520090518" TYPE="zfs_member" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="MAGEIA3" UUID="be3fadfd-0199-4fb2-ab24-d062137f0e02" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc7: LABEL="ubuntu" UUID="af6448f9-b92d-43de-94aa-906ee6043ffa" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc8: LABEL="cinnarch" UUID="706e7900-8c4c-4250-bb3b-643e8f6f7f04" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc9: LABEL="chakra" UUID="7ca87725-83e7-4e1b-8397-11c8870beb98" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc10: LABEL="opensuse" UUID="002a277c-b399-4083-8f8a-cd9b28f4c8cf" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc11: UUID="a13ba0bc-93d5-4e5c-839f-380a8c068009" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc12: LABEL="fedora" UUID="6f8b4b5a-9f0b-4118-9f84-a19f2412d9dd" TYPE="ext4"

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[root@localhost brian]# cat /etc/fstab
# Entry for /dev/sdc9 :
UUID=be3fadfd-0199-4fb2-ab24-d062137f0e02 / ext4 acl,relatime 1 1
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=77654ABE09CB16AE /media/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=06FCFE2FFCFE191F /media/win_c2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=4D071B86134184CE /media/win_c3 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdc5 :
UUID=31b30c64-9faa-434d-bca5-5d9fbedf9c95 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@localhost brian]#


I had this problem once and it seems like the same reason.
Your swap partition in fstab output is not the same as the results from the blkid command.

Change this line in fstab:
UUID=31b30c64-9faa-434d-bca5-5d9fbedf9c95 swap swap defaults 0 0

so that the UUID matches this line from the blkid output:
/dev/sdc5: UUID="c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8" TYPE="swap"

Steve

Thanks steve. I just need some help opening it with root privileges. I see that by default it opens with kwrite. I also see I have gedit. I have tried doing kwrite /etc/fstab while in su mode, but it does not open. What am I doing wrong?

I'm assuming you are using kde, as you have been using kwrite ?
If so, prefix your command with kdesu, like this:

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kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab

kdesu allows you to open gui packages as root.

HTH

Steve

when i try to run kdesu it tells me command no found. i was able to open up dolphin as root though, with sudo dolphin, and that let me change it. However, I have changed it, and it still does not work! it still gives me the same error and takes 90 seconds!

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[root@localhost brian]# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Avatar" UUID="77654ABE09CB16AE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Music" UUID="06FCFE2FFCFE191F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Win7" UUID="4D071B86134184CE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc3: LABEL="sabayon" UUID="f8394391-ccf1-4c19-b66a-5c7560684002" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc4: LABEL="tank1" UUID="16111845021244537113" UUID_SUB="12168429129520090518" TYPE="zfs_member" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="MAGEIA3" UUID="be3fadfd-0199-4fb2-ab24-d062137f0e02" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc7: LABEL="ubuntu" UUID="af6448f9-b92d-43de-94aa-906ee6043ffa" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc8: LABEL="cinnarch" UUID="706e7900-8c4c-4250-bb3b-643e8f6f7f04" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc9: LABEL="chakra" UUID="7ca87725-83e7-4e1b-8397-11c8870beb98" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc10: LABEL="opensuse" UUID="002a277c-b399-4083-8f8a-cd9b28f4c8cf" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc11: UUID="a13ba0bc-93d5-4e5c-839f-380a8c068009" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc12: LABEL="fedora" UUID="6f8b4b5a-9f0b-4118-9f84-a19f2412d9dd" TYPE="ext4"


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[root@localhost brian]# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Avatar" UUID="77654ABE09CB16AE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Music" UUID="06FCFE2FFCFE191F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Win7" UUID="4D071B86134184CE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc3: LABEL="sabayon" UUID="f8394391-ccf1-4c19-b66a-5c7560684002" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc4: LABEL="tank1" UUID="16111845021244537113" UUID_SUB="12168429129520090518" TYPE="zfs_member" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="MAGEIA3" UUID="be3fadfd-0199-4fb2-ab24-d062137f0e02" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc7: LABEL="ubuntu" UUID="af6448f9-b92d-43de-94aa-906ee6043ffa" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc8: LABEL="cinnarch" UUID="706e7900-8c4c-4250-bb3b-643e8f6f7f04" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc9: LABEL="chakra" UUID="7ca87725-83e7-4e1b-8397-11c8870beb98" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc10: LABEL="opensuse" UUID="002a277c-b399-4083-8f8a-cd9b28f4c8cf" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc11: UUID="a13ba0bc-93d5-4e5c-839f-380a8c068009" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc12: LABEL="fedora" UUID="6f8b4b5a-9f0b-4118-9f84-a19f2412d9dd" TYPE="ext4"


As you can see, they now match. I did notice there is now a fstab.old file in the etc section that I don't think was there before. Should I be concerned about that?

Actually I can't see, you have shown the blkid command twice, but I believe you
Can you post your new fstab please ? The fstab.old file should not cause any problems.

Sorry about the kdesu command not working, I'm used to using Alt+F2 to open krunner, it works in there so I assumed it would work in a console window.

my bad lol

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[root@localhost brian]# cat /etc/fstab
# Entry for /dev/sdc9 :
UUID=be3fadfd-0199-4fb2-ab24-d062137f0e02 / ext4 acl,relatime 1 1
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=77654ABE09CB16AE /media/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=06FCFE2FFCFE191F /media/win_c2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=4D071B86134184CE /media/win_c3 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdc5 :
UUID="c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8 swap swap defaults 0 0


You copied an unwanted "

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UUID="c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8 swap swap defaults 0 0

Should be

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UUID=c752c1ce-c874-45c6-afe5-c509e51a3df8 swap swap defaults 0 0

well now i feel just dumb lol i will try changing that shortly.

worked wonderfully! thank you all for your help!