Fortunately, all my partitions in /dev/disks/by-uuid reappeared again.
So I cannot reproduce the initial problem. But you can reproduce the
hanging boot easily by creating a /home mount with a wrong uuid
in /etc/fstab.
I have tested this approach (intentionally giving the wrong uuid of
my /home p
Attached is the output before reboot with karmic and ppa mountall. Note
that mountall with karmic mountall does not terminate. I had to stop it
with a ctrl-c. What is attached is the output until that point.
The boot with new mountall itself hangs and cannot be interrupted by
sysreq-e. Thus I was
