Comment 4 for bug 479429

> I need to see it failing in the log ;-)

That makes sense, but I don't know how to do that. I tried disabling kdm start so I booted into a shell. I then enabled the /var/tmp line in fstab and ran mountall. In that case it seemed to mount /var/tmp okay, although it did hang. I had to press Ctrl-C to stop it. But the log showed nothing different, except it said /var/tmp was mounted successfully. A "mount" command confirmed that /var/tmp was mounted on tmpfs. Seemed to get way past that point in the log, which ended with the line
  run_swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/900b83f8-4962-4652-a865-3d775b3af2ed: already activated

So I don't know how to make mountall fail in the log, since it only seems to fail during boot (presumably when upstart executes it). I considered changing the mountall command in /etc/init/mountall.conf and adding a --debug and redirecting the output to a file, but where can I write the file? Aren't all filesystems unmounted at that point?

So I need instructions on the getting log you want. Thanks for looking at this.