I ran into this on upgrading from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 - booting freezes and gives a screen asking for ESC to drop to a rescue shell - mountall is at V1.0, so unless the above changes aren't in the online updates yet, I'm fairly sure the problem isn't fully fixed yet. The problem appears to be that root is being mounted read only even though "mount" displays it as read/write, and simply entering "mount -o remount /", then "mountall" at the recovery prompt will allow the system to boot. This makes me wonder if the problem is really with mount, rather than mountall. The workaround I came up with is this:
rename /sbin/mountall to /sbin/mountall.bin create the file /sbin/mountall (make sure it's chmodded to 755): #!/bin/bash /bin/mount -o remount / /sbin/mountall.bin "$@" My system now boots properly every time. I first tried replacing all the /etc/fstab UUID lines with /dev/sdax lines, but that didn't help the problem - reverting that change and installing the above "-o remount" wedge solved it, so it's definitely not anything to do with the UUIDs (although the "waiting for" messages all have the UUID in them, of course.) -- 'cannot yet be mounted', 'waiting for /dev/sda1' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
