Comment 6 for bug 553290

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 553290] Re: Loops on mount failure when Plymouth not running

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 18:03 +0000, Reuben Firmin wrote:

> 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?
>
No, but it may have been fixed by updating to mountall 2.10 which had a
lot of changes in this area.

> 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?
>
Nope, no idea, sorry. Does it still stick?

Scott
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