On 17 mai 2015, at 14:57, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Control: tag -1 wontfix
> 
> Hello Thibaut,
> 
> Thibaut VARENE [2015-05-17 14:41 +0200]:
>> Just upgraded my system from wheezy to jessie. Boot stopped after initial 
>> reboot, with prompt to enter root password. After looking at the logs, it 
>> seems that systemd choked on this line of my fstab:
>> 
>> UUID="8633-12F1"     /media/WDX360   vfat    
>> user,auto,utf8=no,iocharset=iso8859-1   0       2
>> 
>> That's a line I added for convenience whenever I plug a specific USB
>> drive to the machine. Granted, it doesn't have the nofail flag
> 
> Indeed, that *and* it's marked as "auto".
> 
>> and it does have a 2 pass_no (instead of 0), but this never caused
>> any problem in wheezy, so the new behavior, and the fact that it
>> entirely halts the boot process (the machine isn't even remotely
>> accessible) is quite a huge change from previous behavior...
> 
> It's a change indeed, but IMHO a correct one. Aside from "auto" and
> "nofail" there is no other indication whether a file system in fstab
> should be considered "essential" (in your terms) or not. That's
> precisely what these flags are for. sysvinit might have not complained
> about this situation, but that doesn't mean that I'd like to
> proliferate that bug forever.
> 
> Hence I consider this a "wontfix".

A footnote in the release/upgrade instructions would have been nice. If that 
machine had been remote without OOB access, I'd have been screwed over, because 
something that never broke previous upgrades.

T.

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