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. :-)
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.