Comment 32 for bug 542334

I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 with a separate /var partition and afterwards I too was getting a "ureadahead main process (xxx) terminated with status 5" message along with having no pack files in /var/lib/ureadahead. The system boots normally otherwise however. It seems that if /var is separate then the fix called for is changing "start on starting mountall" to "start on mounted MOUNTPOINT=/var" in /etc/init/ureadahead.conf (as in comment #23; if /var is not separate then the fix apparently called for is to reinstall ureadahead). This did indeed eliminate the message in my case and pack files are now being created. But if I read the comments here and under bug 432360 correctly then the message was just a warning that ureadahead could not read the pack files from /var because /var wasn't mounted yet and so boot performance could not be improved. Telling ureadahead to start only once /var is mounted eliminates the message but defeats the purpose of ureadahead (faster booting).