Above, Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2009-10-10: "Effectively, this is by design; filesystems that aren't required to bring up the desktop should not block the desktop, they should be handled in parallel."
My boot disk partition is DB001_F1, which contains the system files and ${HOME} directory. However, my installation is configured such that the all the other directories under the ${HOME} directory are on a second partition, namely Desktop -> /DB001_F2/home/ericthered.Desktop Not every time, but often enough, when I do a pushbutton boot (cold) or a warm boot (restart), it appears that the system mounts the ${HOME} directory as if it were my Desktop, and I have to rebuild my Desktop from scratch (please don't ask me the steps, because I always have to muddle thru to get it back to how I want it. Is there some setting, configuration or switch that I can set to force the boot process to wait until it can access all disks properly, BEFORE it attempts to build the GDM environment ? System: Host: OasisMega1 Kernel: 5.4.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M4A78-E v: Rev 1.xx serial: 101048580000313 BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2603 date: 04/13/2011 CPU: Quad Core: AMD Phenom II X4 810 type: MCP speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2600 MHz Graphics: Device-1: AMD RS780D [Radeon HD 3300] driver: radeon v: kernel Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1440x900~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: AMD RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.4.0-67-generic LLVM 11.0.0) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.6 Info: Processes: 248 Uptime: 24m Memory: 2.92 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (42.5%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb3 192G 16G 167G 9% / /dev/sdb7 289G 153G 122G 56% /DB001_F2 /dev/sdb8 289G 246G 29G 90% /DB001_F3 /dev/sdb9 289G 258G 17G 95% /DB001_F4 /dev/sdb12 193G 29G 154G 16% /DB001_F5 /dev/sdb13 193G 149G 35G 82% /DB001_F6 /dev/sdb14 289G 166G 109G 61% /DB001_F7 /dev/sdb4 92G 35G 53G 40% /DB001_F8 /dev/sdc2 99G 60M 94G 1% /site/DB003_F1 /dev/sdc3 357G 67M 338G 1% /site/DB003_F2 /dev/sda2 108G 7.0G 96G 7% /site/DB004_F1 Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439604 Title: boot process isn't paused while fsck runs on partition: boot process is completed with fsck running in the background preventing partition from mounting Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in mountall package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: usplash I had a problem mounting my /dev/sdb1 partition the last couple of times after booting up Ubuntu. I got the following error when trying to mount the partition: mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /media/data busy so I tried issuing the following command and I could see that fsck was running in the background, without having notified me, checking /dev/sdb1, and not while showing the splash screen and a progress bar like it usually does: rune@runescomp:~$ sudo fuser -m /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: 804 rune@runescomp:~$ ps aux | grep 804 root 804 5.0 3.4 72528 71164 ? D 21:29 0:50 fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sdb1 rune@runescomp:~/Desktop$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) Release: 9.10 rune@runescomp:~/Desktop$ apt-cache policy usplash usplash: Installed: 0.5.39 Candidate: 0.5.39 Version table: *** 0.5.39 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Sep 30 21:54:05 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 MachineType: . . NonfreeKernelModules: kvm_intel kvm fglrx Package: usplash 0.5.39 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=55bcb986-d698-4aea-a3bb-c581262ea713 ro quiet splash elevator=deadline ProcEnviron: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic SourcePackage: usplash Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 UsplashConf: # Usplash configuration file # These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs. xres=1920 yres=1440 dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG dmi.board.name: IP35 Pro XE(Intel P35-ICH9R) dmi.board.vendor: http://www.abit.com.tw/ dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: System Enclosure Manufacter dmi.chassis.version: OEM dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd05/26/2008:svn.:pn.:pvrSystemVersion:rvnhttp//www.abit.com.tw/:rnIP35ProXE(IntelP35-ICH9R):rvr1.0:cvnSystemEnclosureManufacter:ct3:cvrOEM: dmi.product.name: . dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: . To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/439604/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp