[Bug 1064074] Re: mountall blocks boot

[Steve Langasek]

Ok, that's a rather strange error condition for mountall.  Mountall
talks to plymouth and provides regular status updates, including
information about any filesystems that are failing to mount.  You
mention plymouth is running ok; how is it configured?  Is this a machine
with a graphical boot splash enabled, or using the 'details' plugin?
(i.e., is 'splash' being passed on the kernel commandline, or not?)  If
you boot with the 'quiet' option disabled, is there any activity?  Does
using the 'Esc' key to toggle between splash screen and details mode
show any activity?

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Title:
  mountall blocks boot

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  after upgrading to Quantal the system no longer boots.
  I've debugged the issue by booting with init=/bin/bash and it seems that mountall fails to spawn a few processes because PATH is wrong.
  Here is the strace output:

  [pid  3302] execve("swapon", ["swapon", "/dev/sda2"], [/* 9 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  [pid  3302] execve("/bin/swapon", ["swapon", "/dev/sda2"], [/* 9 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  [pid  3302] execve("/usr/bin/swapon", ["swapon", "/dev/sda2"], [/* 9 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  [pid  3302] write(2, "mountall: swapon /dev/sda2 [3302"..., 61mountall: swapon /dev/sda2 [3302]: No such file or directory
  ) = 61
  [pid  3302] write(15, "!", 1)           = 1
  [pid  3277] <... read resumed> "!", 1)  = 1
  [pid  3277] close(14)                   = 0
  [pid  3302] exit_group(0)               = ?

  here mountall fails to spawn swapon, but the same happens to fsck.

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