Comment 3 for bug 542378

The bug related to eternal "waiting for / [SM]" appears to be a real problem then.

The message "mountall.c:2726: Not reached assertion failed" is unfortunately not helpful though. I've looked at mountall.c, and that message is simply because we both pressed <ENTER>, when the valid choices were "[SM]", ie S (skip) or M (maintenance shell). There appears to be a buglet here: either plymouth_prompt should not be allowing <ENTER>, or mountall.c should be handling it. But the message is unfortunately not telling us anything about why "/" is not available.

From mountall.c:

  message = NIH_MUST (nih_sprintf (NULL, _("Waiting for %s [SM]"),
       MOUNT_NAME (mnt)));

  answer = plymouth_prompt (NULL, message, "SsMm");
                if (answer is null or is S or is M) // real code removed for brevity..
                    ..
                else
   nih_assert_not_reached (); // <== the failure message seen above