Boot does not continue after exiting maintenance shell after mountall failure

[Dave Martin]

Binary package hint: upstart

This might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121585

I hit this problem on armel; I don't know whether it is platform specific.

Boot logs and the output of init -v are attached. (At the end of the log, the platform is just hanging, with no display output, no login prompts etc.)

root@(none):/# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

root@(none):/# apt-cache policy upstart mountall usplash
upstart:
  Installed: 0.6.3-5
  Candidate: 0.6.3-5
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.3-5 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
mountall:
  Installed: 0.1.8
  Candidate: 0.1.8
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.8 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
usplash:
  Installed: 0.5.39
  Candidate: 0.5.39
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.39 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.