[Bug 570848] Re: Mountall/plymouth don't report mount errors, dump to read-only root shell

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[Expired for mountall (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Mountall/plymouth don't report mount errors, dump to read-only root
  shell

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  Running mountall 2.14 and plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu1.

  When there's a failed mount in /etc/fstab, no information about the
  failure is presented to the user.

  A message:

  "General error mounting filesystems.
  A maintenance shell will now be started.
  CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system."

  flashes on the screen for a moment, before getting cleared when the
  screen resolution changes.

  User is dumped on root shell, with a read-only filesystem, and no
  explaination of what's happened.

  Even if the "General error" message showed up, there wouldn't be any
  information about which filesystem had a problem mounting.

  Especially troublesome because many upgrade-path installations still
  have:

  none                   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   defaults
  0 0

  in fstab, which was perfectly valid in karmic.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: mountall 2.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Apr 27 11:24:21 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_CA.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: mountall

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