boot-up hangs due to disk check on /boot partition (Karmic)

[mipullen]

Config:
   Lenovo ThinkPad W500, 6 GB RAM
   Fully encrypted hard drive & encrypted /home
   Separate /boot partition.

Steps to reproduce:
1) I upgraded from Jaunty 9.04 to Karmic 9.10 (some errors installing fonts -- not related)
2) Upon reboot, the login screen to unlock the hard drive correctly displayed (good)
3) After entering the password, a disk check on the /boot partition begins (I can cancel using ESC)
4) If I don't hit ESC, the screen goes black and the login screen never displays

Workaround:
1) Boot in recovery mode (GRUB option)
2) sudo vi /etc/fstab (or if you don't know vi then: sudo pico /etc/fstab)
3) Find line containing /boot; Most likely it'll look something like this
UUID=<lots of characters> /boot ext2 relatime 0 2
4) Change it to include the "bootwait" option as demonstrated below
UUID=<lots of characters> /boot ext2 relatime,bootwait 0 2
6) Save the file and exit
7) Reboot

This prevents boot from continuing until the /boot partition has been checked and can be mounted.

[mipullen (jeremy-pullen)]

This appears to be completely unrelated to 430496. Please explain how they're similar!? i.e. this bug has nothing to do with the fact that my main partition is encrypted.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

You're right; it looks like this is actually a duplicate of bug #439604, which is already documented in the release notes.