I'm having trouble reproducing the looping behaviour, even after having restored the usbfs to my fstab. I have cleaned up some udev configs since then...any chance those were interacting with this line in fstab?
On the boot being frozen: after filing this report, I discovered the workaround in #545536 - ctrl alt del when the boot is frozen makes it succeed. So some process (possibly not mountall) is sticking. I do have the "ureadahead" message mentioned in that bug, atlhough I believe that it's innocuous; nevertheless, does that give you a clue where in the boot is has gotten stuck? -- Loops on mount failure when Plymouth not running https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553290 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs