[SOLVED] Debian 9 Taking A Long Time To Boot Lots Of Errors

Ztcoracat · 03-08-2019, 08:07 PM

Thank you Brains for explaining all of that information for me. I appreciate it.

I think I'd like to just boot into Mint and take care of it that way 'if' necessary.

-:::-I've learned not to do things with my Linux boxes when I'm tired. I will re-read your post #44 tomorrow after a good nights sleep and go from there.-:::-

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But it's highly unlikely you'll need to reinstall mdadm.

I believe you are right.

I don't think that mdadm has it's hooks in the boot process at all. You?

Brains · 03-08-2019, 09:02 PM

It is possible that mdadm was installed automatically because the installer noticed 3 drives were present.

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Brains

It is possible that mdadm was installed automatically because the installer noticed 3 drives were present.

Yeah, I'm thinking that's what happened:-

Anyway.....I re-read post #44 and basically I need to run this:

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mount /dev/xxxx /mnt       
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done
chroot /mnt
apt install mdadm
exit 
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do umount /mnt$i; done
umount /mnt

in the terminal of my Mint installation: only if mdadm needs to be installed again, and
than reboot into Debian....right?

Any other details I should know?

Brains · 03-09-2019, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Any other details I should know?

When you go to uninstall via command line with apt, it'll give a list of everything that will get uninstalled before you confirm, copy and paste that list into a text editor and store it in Mint. Good to keep track.

descendant_command · 03-09-2019, 04:54 PM

It gets logged in /var/log/apt as well.

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Brains

When you go to uninstall via command line with apt, it'll give a list of everything that will get uninstalled before you confirm, copy and paste that list into a text editor and store it in Mint. Good to keep track.

Thank you-

If after removing mdadm Debian won't boot I'll have to check first if chroot is installed in Mint.

I'll let you know what happens.

hydrurga · 03-09-2019, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Thank you-

If after removing mdadm Debian won't boot I'll have to check first if chroot is installed in Mint.

I'll let you know what happens.

I haven't been following the rest of this thread so apologies if I'm off the mark here, but the chroot command comes in the coreutils package and thus is available in Mint. It's in /usr/sbin.

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by hydrurga

I haven't been following the rest of this thread so apologies if I'm off the mark here, but the chroot command comes in the coreutils package and thus is available in Mint. It's in /usr/sbin.

Thanks for letting me know:-

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 06:06 PM

After removing mdadm Debian now boots in 3 to 5 seconds. The error message at boot up is gone. Thank you Brains-

The mdadm directory and the mdadm.conf is still in the /etc/ root directory.

Now, I've never used gksudo. Can I just use apt to remove the mdadm directory?

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 06:10 PM

In other words just run this:

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sudo rm -r nameofdirectory

Brains · 03-09-2019, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

In other words just run this:

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sudo rm -r nameofdirectory

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Can I just use apt to remove the mdadm directory?

Use command as root or sudo: rm -rf /etc/mdadm

Brains · 03-09-2019, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

After removing mdadm Debian now boots in 3 to 5 seconds.

Of my 6 Linux distros, Debian Testing is the fastest at getting to a usable desktop, and that's with heavy weight KDE.

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Brains

Of my 6 Linux distros, Debian Testing is the fastest at getting to a usable desktop, and that's with heavy weight KDE.

Considering that KDE is a RAM hog; that's great news.

Is your Debian Testing on an SSD or a regular HDD? How many seconds till a usable DE?

-:::-Taking a break than I'll rm that directory and mark this solved:--:::-

Brains · 03-09-2019, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Considering that KDE is a RAM hog; that's great news.

Is your Debian Testing on an SSD or a regular HDD? How many seconds till a usable DE?

-:::-Taking a break than I'll rm that directory and mark this solved:--:::-

On an SSD, 16GB ram, I would say around 8-10 seconds.
You can also try command: sudo apt autoremove to see if that will remove the directory. Below is from the man page.

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autoremove (apt-get(8))
           autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed as dependencies changed or the package(s)
           needing them were removed in the meantime.

           You should check that the list does not include applications you have grown to like even though they were once installed just as a dependency of another package. You can mark such a
           package as manually installed by using apt-mark(8). Packages which you have installed explicitly via install are also never proposed for automatic removal.

Ztcoracat · 03-09-2019, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Brains

On an SSD, 16GB ram, I would say around 8-10 seconds.
You can also try command: sudo apt autoremove to see if that will remove the directory. Below is from the man page.

Code:

autoremove (apt-get(8))
           autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed as dependencies changed or the package(s)
           needing them were removed in the meantime.

           You should check that the list does not include applications you have grown to like even though they were once installed just as a dependency of another package. You can mark such a
           package as manually installed by using apt-mark(8). Packages which you have installed explicitly via install are also never proposed for automatic removal.

Thanks to you my Debian system now boots in 5 seconds to get me to the login.

My PS3 just locked up. Seems like there is always something going on.