Comment 5 for bug 553290

I'm having trouble reproducing the looping behaviour, even after having restored the usbfs to my fstab. I have cleaned up some udev configs since then...any chance those were interacting with this line in fstab?

On the boot being frozen: after filing this report, I discovered the workaround in #545536 - ctrl alt del when the boot is frozen makes it succeed. So some process (possibly not mountall) is sticking. I do have the "ureadahead" message mentioned in that bug, atlhough I believe that it's innocuous; nevertheless, does that give you a clue where in the boot is has gotten stuck?