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mwchang
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 7:40 Post subject: USB script executed during sysinit, ntp_timer setup

How many times had rc_usb been executed? Smile

It seemed that my check [[ "$xx" > "1" ]] failed despite that there were indeed multiple entries of '{.rc_usb}' in the process list...

This was the USB script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
pslog=/var/log/ps.log.txt

is-mounted.sh

logger "changmw: starting .rc_usb"

ps | grep -i usb >> $pslog
echo -n >> $pslog

xx=`ps | grep '{.rc_usb}' | grep -v grep | wc -l`
echo $xx >> $pslog
echo -n >> $pslog
if [[ "$xx" > "1" ]] ; then
logger "changmw: .rc_usb already started($xx)"
exit 1
fi

And here was /var/log/ps.log.txt:

Code:

> cat ps.log.txt

2489 root [usb-storage]
2734 root startservice run_rc_usb -f
2735 root startservice run_rc_usb -f
2736 root /sbin/service run_rc_usb start -f
2739 root /sbin/service run_rc_usb start -f
2741 root {.rc_usb} /bin/sh /tmp/.rc_usb blockdev_add /opt
2742 root {.rc_usb} /bin/sh /tmp/.rc_usb blockdev_add /opt
2851 root grep -i usb
2489 root [usb-storage]
3
2734 root startservice run_rc_usb -f
2735 root startservice run_rc_usb -f
2736 root /sbin/service run_rc_usb start -f
2739 root /sbin/service run_rc_usb start -f
2741 root {.rc_usb} /bin/sh /tmp/.rc_usb blockdev_add /opt
2742 root {.rc_usb} /bin/sh /tmp/.rc_usb blockdev_add /opt
2856 root {.rc_usb} /bin/sh /tmp/.rc_usb blockdev_add /opt
2858 root grep {.rc_usb}
2862 root grep -i usb
4

And here was /var/log/messages:

Code:

> grep changmw messages

May 14 15:27:41 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: changmw: starting .rc_usb
May 14 15:27:41 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: changmw: starting .rc_usb
...

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 8:12 Post subject:
With one mounted USB drive/partition it will run 1x. With multiple drives it may be executed multiple times. Last edited by ho1Aetoo on Sat May 14, 2022 8:16; edited 1 time in total

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 8:14 Post subject:

ho1Aetoo wrote:

With one mounted UBS drive/partition it will run 1x.
With multiple drives it may be executed multiple times.

I have only one USB drive.

edit:

OK, my USB drive indeed had 2 partitions...

Strange that the count didn't work as expected...

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Last edited by mwchang on Sat May 14, 2022 8:20; edited 1 time in total

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 8:19 Post subject:
But you can also mount the USB stick twice. Simply by assigning a suitable label + mount by UUID a screenshot of WebIF > Services > USB gives some information

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 8:23 Post subject:

ho1Aetoo wrote:

But you can also mount the USB stick twice. Smile

Simply by assigning a suitable label + mount by UUID

a screenshot of WebIF > Services > USB gives some information

Well, as you said, I had 2 partitions, mounted as /opt and /jffs respectively, each had it's UUID. Because /dev/sda was also mounted with a failure, I guess it meant rc_usb was indeed executed 3 times (sda, sda1, sda2) according to your saying.

Here was the USB tab:

Code:

--- /dev/sda
Block device, size 14.91 GiB (16008609792 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map

Partition 1: 2 GiB (2147483648 bytes, 4194304 sectors from 32)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
UUID D75E81C7-527A-427D-xxxxx (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/jffs"
Volume size 2 GiB (2147483648 bytes, 524288 blocks of 4 KiB)

Partition 2: 12.91 GiB (13861109760 bytes, 27072480 sectors from 4194336)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
UUID 4BCEF791-82FC-487F-xxxxx (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/opt"
Volume size 12.91 GiB (13861109760 bytes, 3384060 blocks of 4 KiB)

FAT32 file system (hints score 4 of 5)
Volume size 14.89 GiB (15992987648 bytes, 1952269 clusters of 8 KiB)
Volume name ""
/dev/sda not mounted Unsupported Filesystem

--- /dev/sda1
Block device, size 2 GiB (2147483648 bytes)
Ext4 file system
UUID D75E81C7-527A-427D-xxxxx (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/jffs"
Volume size 2 GiB (2147483648 bytes, 524288 blocks of 4 KiB)
/dev/sda1 mounted to /jffs

--- /dev/sda2
Block device, size 12.91 GiB (13861109760 bytes)
Ext4 file system
UUID 4BCEF791-82FC-487F-xxxxxx (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/opt"
Volume size 12.91 GiB (13861109760 bytes, 3384060 blocks of 4 KiB)
/dev/sda2 mounted to /opt

ho1Aetoo
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 8:29 Post subject:
BS said to me then I must write my script so that a multiple execution does not interfere Well I only see 2 mounted drives. The script should be executed only 2x. (in my opinion still 1x too much)

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 9:20 Post subject:

As far as I know, when USB is started devices etc pluged into USB, things rinse and repeat. Nothing to do with sysinit I think.

egc is the one who knows exactly whats going on there.

Sorry Im not looking at the code.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 9:33 Post subject:

ho1Aetoo wrote:

BS said to me then I must write my script so that a multiple execution does not interfere

Well I only see 2 mounted drives.
The script should be executed only 2x.
(in my opinion still 1x too much)

Even more horrifying is sfe ... Smile

Code:

> grep -E 'sfe|changmw|cleanup' /var/log/messages

Jan 1 08:00:12 RT-N18U-HST kern.info kernel: [ 0.942366] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
Jan 1 08:00:12 RT-N18U-HST kern.info kernel: [ 0.942820] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers disabled
Jan 1 08:00:14 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully stopped
Jan 1 08:00:19 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
Jan 1 08:00:22 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
Jan 1 08:00:28 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully stopped
Jan 1 08:00:28 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
Jan 1 08:00:29 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully stopped
Jan 1 08:00:30 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
Jan 1 08:00:33 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
May 14 17:25:37 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully stopped
May 14 17:25:37 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
May 14 17:25:39 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully stopped
May 14 17:25:42 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
May 14 17:25:45 RT-N18U-HST user.info : [sfe] : shortcut forwarding engine successfully started
May 14 17:25:48 RT-N18U-HST daemon.info process_monitor[1863]: [process_monitor] : cleanup timers
May 14 17:25:51 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: changmw: starting .rc_usb
May 14 17:25:51 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: changmw: starting .rc_usb
May 14 17:25:51 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: changmw: .rc_usb already started
May 14 17:25:51 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: 0: changmw waiting for init for 5 seconds
May 14 17:25:56 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: 1: changmw waiting for init for 5 seconds
May 14 17:26:01 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: 2: changmw waiting for init for 5 seconds
May 14 17:26:06 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: 3: changmw waiting for init for 5 seconds
May 14 17:26:11 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: 4: changmw re-starting unbound
May 14 17:26:13 RT-N18U-HST user.notice root: 4: changmw re-starting minidlna

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:31 Post subject:

and Dnsmasq here it repeats everything several times, the logs is just spam of useless stuff. The services restart for no real reason, and some services do not start at all unless you hammer the apply button https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1262339
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:39 Post subject:

SFE recycles every NTP sync; there are probably others that do as well. This is why I only sync NTP once per 24 hours. Less log spam Wink

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:45 Post subject:

The problem is that services rely on each other, lets take DNSMasq, you want it to start early to get a WAN ip address.

If you have Dot enabled then that starts after DNSMasq, but in order to work DNSMasq has to restart.

There are probably more services which are connected to DNSMasq and trigger restarts.

Maybe my example is not exactly true but you get the meaning.

Not saying all restarts are necessary though
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:46 Post subject:

kernel-panic69 wrote:

SFE recycles every NTP sync; there are probably others that do as well. This is why I only sync NTP once per 24 hours. Less log spam Wink

Access rules
WireGuard
OpenVPN
Firewall

All trigger reset of SFE
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 11:23 Post subject:

kernel-panic69 wrote:

Udhcpc gets WAN IP which DNSMasq and NTP rely on to work... for IPv4...

That is why I wrote:

Quote:

Maybe my example is not exactly true but you get the meaning.

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Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 12:19 Post subject: Re: USB script executed during sysinit... how many times?

mwchang wrote:

It seemed that my check [[ "$xx" > "1" ]] failed despite that there were indeed multiple entries of '{.rc_usb}' in the process list...

This was the USB script:

Code:

xx=`ps | grep '{.rc_usb}' | grep -v grep | wc -l`
if [[ "$xx" > "1" ]] ; then
logger "changmw: .rc_usb already started($xx)"
exit 1
fi

My bad, I needed to use "-gt" instead of ">". Anyway, I now use a pid file to do the instance check. Counting the number of "rc_usb" in the process list to detect multiple instances of rc_usb isn't reliable....

Code:

pidfile=/tmp/var/run/rc_usb.pid
if [[ -f $pidfile ]] ; then
logger "changmw: .rc_usb already started"
exit 1
fi
touch $pidfile
....
rm -f $pidfile

logger "$i: changmw exiting .rc_usb

It would be great if DD-WRT's Busybox could enable the "flock" command. Then we could use file locking to avoid multiple instancecs of a certain process.

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