Issue after Jessie upgrade

[BobSwi]

I upgraded to jessie over the the weekend, everything mostly went as planned. I have nginx installed with a site stored on /data which is mounted from /dev/sda1 on boot, and I've had bootdelay=5 in cmdline.txt since wheezy.
However now, after every few reboots, my USB drive is not available or seems to be mounting late and nginx fails with:
2015/11/30 15:08:22 [emerg] 403#0: open() "/data/.../logs/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)
I can start nginx manually after I log in and it runs fine, or even just reboot the pi and it comes up fine sometimes.
Is there someplace I can check if something else is happening during boot?

Thanks!

[DougieLawson]

What's in /etc/fstab?

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/dev/sda1  /data ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0

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/dev/sda1   /data  ext4 defaults,noatime,x-systemd.automount 0 0

Or even better change it to

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UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx /data     ext4    defaults,noatime,x-systemd.automount       0 0

where you get the UUID by running blkid /dev/sda1 then it doesn't matter if your drive appears as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdq1 it will still mount.

[BobSwi]

Thanks, i'll set that up and test. My current fstab was

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/dev/sda1  /data  ext4  defaults,nofail 0 2

Edit: Thanks, that seems to have done the trick, everything is working after multiple reboots!

[Tom_A]

What's in /etc/fstab?

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/dev/sda1  /data ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0

to

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/dev/sda1   /data  ext4 defaults,noatime,x-systemd.automount 0 0

Or even better change it to

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UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx /data     ext4    defaults,noatime,x-systemd.automount       0 0

where you get the UUID by running blkid /dev/sda1 then it doesn't matter if your drive appears as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdq1 it will still mount.

I seem to remember having to do something extra to get UUIDs to work with Wheezy on USB installs. Is this no longer necessary?

[DougieLawson]

The UUID for my Jessie system that has a rootfs on a hard drive works without any struggle. The UUID is in /boot/cmdline.txt and in /etc/fstab.

cmdline

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dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait rootdelay=5

fstab

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
/dev/mmcblk0p1  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx /     ext4    defaults,noatime       0 1
#/dev/mmcblk0p2  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
#

[rpdom]

[I seem to remember having to do something extra to get UUIDs to work with Wheezy on USB installs. Is this no longer necessary?

Was it something to do with using an initrd? I think dougie mentioned that he'd done that at some point.

[DougieLawson]

[I seem to remember having to do something extra to get UUIDs to work with Wheezy on USB installs. Is this no longer necessary?

Was it something to do with using an initrd? I think Dougie mentioned that he'd done that at some point.

I've got an initramfs created with mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.sda and referenced with

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initramfs initrd.sda followkernel

in config.txt