[Bug 1096307] Re: Boot process hang because 'mountall' fails

[Steve Langasek]

I've tried to reproduce this with both mountall 2.36 and mountall
2.36.3, and cannot.  When booting the system, with or without plymouth
splash enabled, I'm shown a prompt as expected:

 The disk drive for /test is not ready yet or not present.
 Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

With the corrupted disk (basically, I just tried to claim my swap
partition was ext2), I get the other expected prompt:

 An error occurred while mounting /disk1.
 Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

So I'm still not seeing any bugs here.

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Title:
    Boot process hang because 'mountall' fails

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  We suspect a bug in Ubuntu 12.04 where boot process is hanged because ‘mountall’ fails due to an HDD failure.
    The issue can be easily reproduced through either of the following scenario on Ubuntu 12.04

    1. Mount a non-existing disk device node. 
    2. Disk/partition error. You can simulate such error by corrupting a working partition using DD command.

    In either case, you will see system stuck at mount procedure and never reach the login prompt. 
    I have tried some option like “timeout=30”, “optional”, update mountall to v2.46. But none of them is working.

    Thanks

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