Re: On gentoo monit cannot access the root fs after upgrading to OpenRC

[Martin Pala]

Hello,

does the user under which monit runs have access to /dev/cciss/c0d0p5?

The symbolic links problem should be solved with upgrade to Monit 5.2.5 which 
had fix for it. Alternatively you can specify mountpoint which should work 
without problems:

check filesystem rootfs with path /
   ...


Regards,
Martin


On May 18, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Marcus Mülbüsch wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I upgraded a gentoo-server to OpenRC and baselayout2. All went well.
> 
> However, monit-5.2.3 now complains about not being able to access the root 
> filesystem:
> 
> "Data access error Service root_fs
> 
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:37:32 +0200
> Action: alert
> Host: dl360
> Description: unable to read filesystem /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 state
> 
> Your faithful employee,
> Monit"
> 
> Only the root filesystem is affected, all other filesystems are still 
> monitored by monit.
> 
> I note that /etc/mtab has changed from:
> 
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0
> 
> to:
> 
>> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
>> /dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0
> 
> 
> and /dev/root now is a link: /dev/root -> cciss/c0d0p5
> 
> However, after changing the relevant lines in the monitrc file from:
> 
>> check device root_fs with path /dev/cciss/c0d0p5
> 
> to:
> 
>> check device root_fs with path /dev/root
> 
> the error does not go away.
> 
> I posted it on the gentoo forum but did not get a reply so far. Anyone here 
> has an idea what did change? Or whether there is a suitable workaround?
> 
> Marcus
> 
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