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. _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
