Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mountall
Following the reformatting of a non-system partition, Ubuntu appeared to be
unable to boot.
Ubuntu boot screen hangs on:
Waiting for /media/shared [SM]
I pressed a key and was met with this message:
mountall:mountall.c:2726: Not reached assertion failed in boredom_timeout
Knowing that this UUID no longer existed I commented out the entry in
fstab, rebooted and all was well.
There are two issues here:
1) A missing trivial partition *appears* to cause complete failure of the
system, at least to a non-technical user.
2) The mountall prompt is not user friendly. [SM] is actually a prompt to press
S = skip? / M = maintenance? This could be a lot clearer, and appears to be
undocumented (Not mentioned in man page). I only found this out afterwards when
searching on this error, I had previously pressed another key which dropped me
to maintenance shell.
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
mountall:
Installed: 2.8
Thanks!
** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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System fails to boot / Unclear mountall prompt.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545658
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