The Cancelled message indicates that you pressed the escape or Ctrl+C
key during filesystem checks or mounting; it's perfectly normal to get a
root shell in this situation
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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General error mounting filesystems after console login
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a regular (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
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