mountall proc/bus/usb could not be mounted

[Christopher]

Binary package hint: mountall

I get the message 'mountall proc/bus/usb could not be mounted', or something close (messages are only briefly visible) when booting, restarting and shutting down. It doesn't seem to affect any of my USB devices or the functioning of the system, other than an extended boot time.

Lucid -9.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 986216097b0334da1f111f9962302c03
CheckboxSystem: 00d1e28d54c476aae7445d64a6399859
Date: Mon Dec 21 10:58:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mountall 1.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: mountall
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please attach your /etc/fstab

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

Just to add to the issue, Segmentation Fault is sometimes the first thing I see on boot up. Nothing else on the screen, just that.

[Pablo Marchant (pamarca)]

I seem to be having this same problem. However, it seems to be related to a somewhat more serious problem. After getting this mountall message, or after getting this "Segmentation Fault" message on boot (the only thing shown right after grub, the boot process doesn't complete), I am asked to manually run fsck and dropped to a root terminal. Once, I even got an error saying "This shouldn't happen. Data will be lost!"

In the root terminal, I run "fsck /dev/sda1" which repairs a lot of errors in my ext4 filesystem. After that, I can boot normally.

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

So far, the boot process is delayed, but not stopped by the 'Segmentation fault' message. I haven't timed it yet, but I'm pretty sure my Karmic partition boots faster than Lucid Alpha.

[Johan Kiviniemi (ion)]

You both might have broken hardware. Please investigate that possibility. Running memtest86+ for a few hours would be a good start.

[Johan Kiviniemi (ion)]

Cristopher,

As for usbfs not mounting:

linux (2.6.32-6.7) lucid; urgency=low

  * [Config] disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS

I don’t know enough about usbfs to say why it was disabled, and the changelog message isn’t helpful either.

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

memtest+ locked up at 53% for almost an hour before I gave up. As to USB devices, they are all working properly, including the ones on root hubs, both USB and a four port PCIMIA card.

The Segmentation fault is not occurring in Karmic on the same laptop, different partition, nor is any other error.

Most of these issues occurred after a UFW update locked and would not continue. I left it running all night and finally force quit the update manager.

I'm wondering if a format and re-install is in order. I don't keep anything important on this partition. I use the Gparted live CD for major surgery.

[Pablo Marchant (pamarca)]

I just runned memtest once, and it went fine. I'll leave it now overnight to see how it goes.

Also, when I get just the segmentation fault message, boot completes. I was just lacking patience before.

[Pablo Marchant (pamarca)]

Memtest results after running overnight: Pass, 7 Fail, 0

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

I have no choice other than a format and re-installation. After this morning's update, my network was flaky and I rebooted. I have no terminal access at all.

Now all I get in any boot mode is a fast-scrolling message which looks like:

mountall: /proc/bus/usb canceled by user, or something to that effect. It's scolling so fast that it's blurry. Only a ctrl+alt+delete stops the process.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 20:00 +0000, Christopher wrote:

> mountall: /proc/bus/usb canceled by user, or something to that effect.
> It's scolling so fast that it's blurry. Only a ctrl+alt+delete stops the
> process.
>
Yeah, uploaded a fix for that a couple of hours ago ;-)

Scott
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[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please test mountall 2.1 (now in lucid)

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

Can you tell me if there is a way to get into a terminal? I just have my Karmic partition available.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 20:35 +0000, Christopher wrote:

> Can you tell me if there is a way to get into a terminal? I just have my
> Karmic partition available.
>
init=/sbin/sulogin always works.

Scott
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[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

I can't stop the scrolling and enter a terminal command. I can stop the scrolling with FN+ScrLk, but I as soon as I type something, the scrolling starts anew.

Is there a way to break the cycle? I can wait until the weekend to reformat and reinstall Lucid on my test partition, but that's a tad drastic.

The only thing working in Lucid is memtest+, which I just ran. 8 tests, no errors.

[Javier Cabezas (javier-cabezas)]

I am still getting the "proc/bus/usb could not be mounted " message with mountall 0.2.1 and cannot get to GDM

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Marking as invalid. usbfs is not available in Ubuntu's kernel