Often 'Press S to skip mount or M for manual recovery' during mounting

[Ernst]

Binary package hint: mountall

I often get during boot: Press S to skip mount or M for manual recovery.
At this time, I press 'M', and then directly 'ctrl-d'. As far as I can see, everything is mounted correctly. SO, Ubuntu should mount everything itself as there are no (obvious) errors or problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mountall 2.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.19~lucid1-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 8 00:21:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100122)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mountall

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

I am thinking this is possibly related to

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/475936

or

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/571682

Do you think either of these are the same issue as the one you are having Ernst?

Sincerely,

Darran

[Ernst (ernst-blaauw)]

It ain't those bugs, as I don't have any encrypted drives.
I just figured out something more:

$ cat /var/log/boot.log
swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/27cac63b-5a29-4c3f-a9f2-8218a51be4d4: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
mountall: swapon /dev/disk/by-uuid/27cac63b-5a29-4c3f-a9f2-8218a51be4d4 [1061] terminated with status 255
mountall: Problem activating swap: /dev/disk/by-uuid/27cac63b-5a29-4c3f-a9f2-8218a51be4d4

It seems the problem is with my swap (instead of /mnt/media, which is reported at the main screen). I have no idea what could be the problem. See my logs below:

My swap fstab entry:
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=27cac63b-5a29-4c3f-a9f2-8218a51be4d4 none swap sw 0 0

$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa8be0b8c

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7649 61440561 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7650 29872 178506247+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 * 30395 49516 153597465 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 49517 91201 334834762+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 7650 29374 174506031 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29375 29872 4000153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0b911d8a

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 91201 732564000 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 * 1 1 8001 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 2 13056 104864256 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 13057 26111 104864256 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 26112 29322 25792326 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 29323 59918 245762338+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb9 59919 86027 209720511 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb10 86028 91201 41560123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 20:50 04543EE4543ED85E -> ../../sdb9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 20:50 0f104604-00b2-4b97-962f-b48f8c29db01 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 18:50 27cac63b-5a29-4c3f-a9f2-8218a51be4d4 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 20:57 6b1e0962-5830-458a-91d2-709abb46f142 -> ../../sdb6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 20:57 7E9A41319A40E6ED -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 20:57 8e9822e1-8bcd-44bb-a69b-c497d95942ca -> ../../sdb7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-08-10 20:57 ba5c5d61-e80d-4b83-206e-a98eacb0ca4c -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ro...

[Ernst (ernst-blaauw)]

Is it possible this bug is related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440719, where is stated that the swap is mounted twice?

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

Ernst,

I am unsure what causes this, but I did do a quick google search and found some individuals with the same issue. Have you been able to find a successful workaround while this issue is addressed?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mountall%3A+Problem+activating+swap%3A#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%22mountall%3A+Problem+activating+swap%3A%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=fca90e9507624f80

Darran

[Ernst (ernst-blaauw)]

At the moment, I'm running Maverick and do not suffer from this bug.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 23:17, drizzle <email address hidden> wrote:

> Ernst,
>
> I am unsure what causes this, but I did do a quick google search and
> found some individuals with the same issue. Have you been able to find a
> successful workaround while this issue is addressed?
>
>
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mountall%3A+Problem+activating+swap%3A#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%22mountall%3A+Problem+activating+swap%3A%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=fca90e9507624f80
>
> Darran
>
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> Title:
> Often 'Press S to skip mount or M for manual recovery' during mounting
>

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

sounds like this is fixed in 10.10 and above.