> possible duplicate of 554079 ?
This bug is similar to (at least) 554079, 554737 and 557161. However,
there are differences in each case:
In bug #554079, it appears that plymouth is stalling during fsck, which
results in GDM not loading. 554079 also makes no mention of the
"mountall: Plymouth command failed" error message. In my case KDM loads
properly and fsck appears to operate correctly.
In bug #554737, the mountall process appears to be blocked by a
plymouthd process, and vice versa. In my case, there are no plymouth
processes running after boot.
In bug #557161, the mountall process terminates shortly after KDM loads.
In my case, the mountall process continues running for several minutes.
Some additional details:
If fsck only checks my root partition at boot time (setting a high mount
count with tune2fs), mountall terminates promptly. The "mountall:
Plymouth command failed" errors only appear 30 or so times before
ceasing, as in bug #557161.
I can replicate the symptom of mountall failing to terminate by running fsck on
only /dev/sda5 at boot. This is a 15 GiB, ext3 partition, 91% full. A fsck on
this partition normally takes less than 4 minutes.
However, at boot time, mountall continues running for 17 minutes. Once the
system had booted (approx. 4 minutes), no fsck processes were running, nor was
there any HDD activity.
$ ps -F -C mountall
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 356 1 82 10598 40852 0 13:42 ? 00:17:16 mountall
--daemon
The mountall process terminated less than 2 seconds later.
I am also attaching a backtrace of the mountall process, as requested at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737/comments/22.
However, unlike that bug, there were no plymouth processes running at
the time ('ps -ef | grep ply' failed to find anything).
** Attachment added: "mountall_backtrace.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44119593/mountall_backtrace.txt
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