Ubuntu
mountall package

Problems with NFS and iSCSI mounts under /usr and /var on 12.04

Bug #1473010 reported by Nick Moriarty on 2015-07-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #654545: mountall does not honor nobootwait flag on /var/* and /usr/* filesystems. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mountall (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The logic in mountall.c forces the system to wait for all mounts within /usr and /var before continuing the boot process. Sometimes, networked filesystems are mounted within these directories.

Because the services that support networked filesystems aren't necessarily started when mountall runs, this can cause the boot process to hang. This has been fixed for Ubuntu 14.04 (mountall 2.53) by allowing the 'nobootwait' flag to be set even for filesystems within /usr and /var, allowing the administrator to specify which filesystems can be ignored.

We only have problems with networked filesystems mounted under /usr and /var; elsewhere they are fine (as the system will skip waiting for them by default).

I'd like to request a backport of the code from 2.53, which permits the use of 'nobootwait' on filesystems under /usr and /var, onto 2.36 for Ubuntu 12.04.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-07-09:

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

Changed in mountall (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2015-07-09:

This appears to be a duplicate of bug #654545.

Unfortunately, as Ubuntu 12.04 is in maintenance mode, it is unlikely that anyone will fix this bug now in that release given that it's being brought up as an issue 3 years after release when there is a newer LTS available. I would recommend upgrading affected systems to 14.04 LTS instead.