Any chance you've been able to reproduce this with 16.04 or later? the upstart -> systemd differences are rather significant.
I wonder if upstart is not opening /dev/console for input early enough or so. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mountall in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547193 Title: Impossible to answer "disk drive not ready" question on serial console Status in mountall package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When booting a server that is suffering from a (probably unrelated) bug in multipath-tools, I get the following questions posed on the serial console during bootup: The disk drive for /opt/vnx is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery Problem is, pressing "S" or "M" (even if followed by a newline) does absolutely nothing on the serial console. It does work on the KVM console, but that might not be available. You might very well need to send someone to a physical data centre somewhere in the middle of nowhere. (I ended up with powercycling the server, temporarily network booting it into a ramdisk, mounting the rootfs and commenting out the problematic entry from /etc/fstab, and rebooting again - which went fine, allowing me to later mount the missing filesystem manually via ssh.) I found no way to make the boot finish or break out to a debug shell, and it happens before sshd starts, so you're basically stuck with no apparent way to recover. For this reason I feel the bug is quite severe. For what it's worth I'm running 14.04.4 LTS, mountall package version is 2.53. The kernel command line is «BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic root=UUID=2a141a43-97b0-4084-8816-ed1c41ac43e0 ro rootflags=subvol=@ console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8». Tore To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1547193/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
