Mountall/plymouth don't report mount errors, dump to read-only root shell

[Jeremy Nickurak]

Binary package hint: mountall

Running mountall 2.14 and plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu1.

When there's a failed mount in /etc/fstab, no information about the failure is presented to the user.

A message:

"General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system."

flashes on the screen for a moment, before getting cleared when the screen resolution changes.

User is dumped on root shell, with a read-only filesystem, and no explaination of what's happened.

Even if the "General error" message showed up, there wouldn't be any information about which filesystem had a problem mounting.

Especially troublesome because many upgrade-path installations still have:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

in fstab, which was perfectly valid in karmic.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mountall 2.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 27 11:24:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mountall

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please modify /etc/init/mountall.conf and change the "exec" line to include --debug - capture the additional output.

If you can continue the boot from the shell (exiting the shell may be sufficient) - the output will be in /var/log/boot.log

[yeti (utu)]

Scott

Using mountall 2.15, kernel 2.6.33-22 generic #33,
here's what I get during the obligatory fsck, which I think applies only to
one clean 6Gb ext3 partition.

fsck without debug takes about two minutes,
which I think is way too long.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

yeti,

Your log doesn't show mountall exiting to a root shell. What does fsck taking two minutes have to do with this bug report?

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