[Bug 1152274] Re: filesystem mount failures during boot halt boot with a blank screen

[Steve Langasek]

"medium" because it's an unlikely event that a supported kernel
filesystem will fail to mount - this is the only time I've heard of this
happening in the past 4 years of mountall.  But yes, we should spit
something to the console when this happens, so the user can at least
understand *what* has happened, given that starting plymouth splash to
display an error prompt is a chicken-and-egg problem.

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  filesystem mount failures during boot halt boot with a blank screen

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  A recent kernel bug caused mounting of efivarfs to fail in some cases.
  When this happened the boot simply stopped with a blank screen,
  providing no information as to what went wrong. This obviously isn't
  optimal. If we're unable to continue booting we should at minimum
  display a message to the user providing the reason.

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