Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mountall
Running mountall 2.14 and plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu1.
When there's a failed mount in /etc/fstab, no information about the
failure is presented to the user.
A message:
"General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system."
flashes on the screen for a moment, before getting cleared when the
screen resolution changes.
User is dumped on root shell, with a read-only filesystem, and no
explaination of what's happened.
Even if the "General error" message showed up, there wouldn't be any
information about which filesystem had a problem mounting.
Especially troublesome because many upgrade-path installations still
have:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0
0
in fstab, which was perfectly valid in karmic.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mountall 2.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 27 11:24:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mountall
** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid ubuntu-une
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Mountall/plymouth don't report mount errors, dump to read-only root shell
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570848
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