Comment 21 for bug 461133

I just tried sending the SIGUSR1 when mountall was running, and then it works:

root@envy:~# mountall --debug --verbose
mount / [15647] exited normally
mount /proc [15648] exited normally
mount /sys [15649] exited normally
mount /sys/fs/fuse/connections [15650] exited normally
mount /sys/kernel/debug [15651] exited normally
mount /sys/kernel/security [15652] exited normally
mount /dev [15653] exited normally
mount /dev/pts [15654] exited normally
mount /dev/shm [15655] exited normally
mount /var/run [15656] exited normally
mount /var/lock [15657] exited normally
mount /lib/init/rw [15658] exited normally
virtual finished
local finished
fhs mounted
activating /dev/disk/by-uuid/dc57d7a3-15a6-48dd-b047-b6ce35e2b2c6
swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/dc57d7a3-15a6-48dd-b047-b6ce35e2b2c6: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
mountall: swapon /dev/disk/by-uuid/dc57d7a3-15a6-48dd-b047-b6ce35e2b2c6 [15667] terminated with status 255
mountall: Problem activating swap: /dev/disk/by-uuid/dc57d7a3-15a6-48dd-b047-b6ce35e2b2c6
swap finished

<<< at this time, from a different console I sent the SIGUSR1 >>>

checking /nfs/staff
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
fsck /nfs/staff [15980] exited normally
mounting /nfs/staff
mount /nfs/staff [15981] exited normally

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So question remains, what is the reason this doesn't work at boot time ?