quotaon fails to start

[Alexander Gruber]

During startup the quota systems is failing to start:

Jan 06 16:28:13 mail systemd[1]: Started File System Quota Check.
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail quotaon.sh[234]: * Checking quotas...
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail systemd[1]: Starting Enable File System Quotas...
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail quotaon.sh[234]: * Checking quotas...
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail quotaon.sh[234]: * Turning on quotas...
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail quotaon.sh[234]: quotaon: using //aquota.group on /dev/sda1 [/]: Device or resource busy
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail quotaon.sh[234]: quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/sda1 [/]: Device or resource busy
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail systemd[1]: quota.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail systemd[1]: Failed to start Check And Enable File System Quotas.
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail systemd[1]: quota.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 06 16:28:13 mail systemd[1]: quota.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

[Alexander Gruber (freakyjoe00)]

The affected version is 4.02-1ubuntu1 from Ubuntu 16.04

[Jon Grimm (jgrimm)]

Hi Alexander,

I think you are running into this:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788963

Would you be able to retest as Xenial has been updated to 4.03-2, and should contain the fix for this?