About a dozen reboots later I can say that it's not working. I tried a few simplifications:
1) Try with my vanilla /etc/fstab -> hangs all the time (I never got to boot to desktop this way) 2) Drop everything but home (but keep 'bootwait') -> worked once (just typing this now), needs more testing to see if this is stable 3) Drop everything but home (also drop 'bootwait') -> this feels like a regression over the previous state (precise packages). I would hang about 70% of the time I've tried it. If it managed to boot to desktop /home would not be mounted! IIRC mountall in precise automatically adds 'bootwait' for /home, is this not the case in quantal? I also got a case that feels like something else is affecting this. With just /home (without bootwait then) I got to the step where everything was mounted but apparently mountall didn't say it was "done". Looking at the log file I see that mountall could not talk to plymouth. I have a log file to show: ** Attachment added: "mountall.log with one remote share (that got mounted) but no progress, stuck before lightdm" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1233610/+attachment/3863775/+files/mountall.mounted-but-failed-to-continue.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1233610 Title: boot process hangs very often when NFS shares are used To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1233610/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
