Re: the fragile boot process [on encryption setups and home data]

2016-03-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:20:15 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> If you add "nofail" to an fstab entry's options, the generated mount >> unit "wants" local-fs.target or remote-fs.target and boot won't fail >> if it fails. > >

Re: the fragile boot process [on encryption setups and home data]

2016-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:20:15 +0200, Tom H wrote: >On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Xen wrote: >> >> If the halt-on-fstab-problem is Ubuntu related, then it is clear my >> message should have been sent here and not some other Linux distro >> or whatever. > >The

Re: the fragile boot process [on encryption setups and home data]

2016-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:20:15 +0200, Tom H wrote: >If you add "nofail" to an fstab entry's options, the generated mount >unit "wants" local-fs.target or remote-fs.target and boot won't fail >if it fails. The OP expect this to be the default, perhaps the OP expects all users have the same needs as

Re: the fragile boot process [on encryption setups and home data]

2016-03-28 Thread Xen
You completely misunderstand the point of my message it seems. And then go and say that I don't understand stuff. And providing such standard (wikipedia) links is just very condescending, you know. If the halt-on-fstab-problem is Ubuntu related, then it is clear my message should have been

Re: the fragile boot process [on encryption setups and home data]

2016-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Bart, you're confusing Ubuntu defaults with Linux. Ubuntu is a Linux distro, but it's not Linux. 1. Ubuntu isn't the only distro, some distros have different defaults, e.g. boot not necessarily hangs, if something in fstab isn't available. 2. FHS compliance is a good thing and you seemingly

the fragile boot process [on encryption setups and home data]

2016-03-28 Thread Xen
Not sure if this list is getting read much but: - in a default install (now Talking Kubuntu 15.10) everything works but a small thing has to go wrong for the system to fail entirely - this is not a resilient thing and it should get changed if the system is to be anything that allows people