Comment 2 for bug 561428

I would like to confirm this issue in a slightly different matter. I upgraded yesterday from karmic to lucid, with my laptop docked at work. Attached to the dock was an usb harddisk, which have long had an entry in my fstab.

I had some issues with the upgrade, which meant I had to reboot at some point, and had to resolve the upgrade manually in a cli.

Eventually it worked.

However, returning home, I could not boot: no single user, no recovery, nothing.

After spending 5 hours on this, I believe I have finally found out, that mountall never emitted the filesystem* event. Most likely because the usb harddisk was not found. Removing the entry from /etc/fstab resolved all my issues.

But I will never get the 5 hours back :-(

Anyway: I think this is a bug: If the bloody disk is missing, please detect this, and provide some kind of feedback, instead of doing absolutely nothing at all. Had I not had my unix-fu to fall back on, the system would have been a brick. :-)

Regards, and keep up the good work.