[Bug 806884] Re: mountall hangs when fstab contains aufs entries because device='none', paths specified in options

[Steve Langasek]

So according to the mountall source, a possible workaround for this is
to make sure the aufs entry in /etc/fstab is listed immediately after
the filesystem that it depends on.  This is underdocumented and
shouldn't be required, but this will work for any filesystem that's
marked 'nodev' in /proc/filesystems - which aufs is.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to mountall in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806884

Title:
  mountall hangs when fstab contains aufs entries because device='none',
  paths specified in options

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi,

  for a webdav application I need apache with dav and a aufs mounted
  directory. Therefore I have an entry

  none /var/www/dav/Public aufs
  br:/mnt/local/archiv/Public_dav:/mnt/local/archiv/Public 0 0

  in my fstab, which works when using mount from the command line. But
  it keeps the system from booting, not even the Singe-Use-Mode shell is
  available anymore. System hangs within mountall. The last thing to be
  seen is that mountall reports that mounting this entry fails.

  I guess that at this time the other partitions are not yet mounted and
  thus the directories needed for this to work do not yet exist.

  So mountall is a) not able to mount regular and correct entries in
  fstab   and b) completely locks the machine even from admin access if
  so.

  
  Even worse, that damned ubuntu startup system does not allow to add local scripts to be run between mounting regular disks and starting an apache. Really broken. 

  regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: mountall 2.15
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-server 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jul  7 11:39:22 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: mountall

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/806884/+subscriptions