Since this is triggered by changing an upstart job unrelated to mountall, I'm reassigning this to upstart.
** Description changed: - One of my Lucid systems stopped booting. If I interpret the "initctl - list" output correctly (attached) the system is waiting for mountall to - complete. + If /home is mounted on a separate partition, and the gdm start condition + in /etc/init/gdm.conf is modified to include "mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home" + as follows: - mountall, however, seems just stuck doing nothing. I added --verbose to - /etc/init/mountall.conf and redirected the output into a file (attached - as well). + start on (filesystem + and mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home + and started dbus + and (drm-device-added card0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1 + or stopped udevtrigger)) - If I execute another "mountall --verbose", this one seems to complete - and the system continues booting. I have attached the output of this - second run as well. + then a lucid system will no longer boot. It seems that in this case the + mountall process is waiting for input from upstart, but upstart is not + sending anything. Thus, the required muntall events are not emitted and + the system refuses to boot. + + The problem can be worked around by manually starting another mountall + instance while the first instance is hanging. + + I have attached the --verbose output of the first and second mountall, as + well as an strace output. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: mountall 2.15.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30~lucid1-server 3.0.22 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Mar 24 18:45:46 2012 ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: mountall ** Package changed: mountall (Ubuntu) => upstart (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - Hanging mountall stops boot process + Waiting for mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home in gdm.conf breaks system boot ** Summary changed: - Waiting for mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home in gdm.conf breaks system boot + Waiting for "mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home in gdm.conf" breaks system boot ** Summary changed: - Waiting for "mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home in gdm.conf" breaks system boot + Waiting for "mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home" in gdm.conf breaks system boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/964207 Title: Waiting for "mounted MOUNTPOINT=/home" in gdm.conf breaks system boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/964207/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
