[Bug 563916] Re: [details.so] No prompt for [S]kip or [M]anual recovery on server boot (or without "splash")

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** Changed in: plymouth
       Status: Fix Released => Unknown

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Title:
  [details.so] No prompt for [S]kip or [M]anual recovery on server boot
  (or without "splash")

Status in Plymouth:
  Unknown
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in plymouth source package in Lucid:
  Fix Released
Status in plymouth source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Stable release update justification:

  Impact: Mount failures of any kind on server installations (i.e. with the plymouth 'details' plugin) hang the boot process rather than producing a visible prompt.  This is serious - you have no idea what's going on and no obvious way to fix it.
  Development branch: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu4 implemented the display_message method in the details plugin, fixing this.
  Patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/563916/+attachment/1742442/+files/plymouth_0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2.debdiff
  TEST CASE: Install an Ubuntu 10.04 server.  Edit /etc/fstab to cause a mount to fail (a good way is to mount a nonexistent device, or you could deliberately break a filesystem in some way).  When you next boot, you should see messages from mountall rather than silent inactivity.
  Regression potential: Obviously test that normal boots still work.  Desktop installations shouldn't have been changed by this, but I think it would be a good idea to double-check that.

  Original report follows:

  Binary package hint: mountall

  On 10.04 servers, as of beta2, when for any reason mountall fails to
  mount some partition (for example because you created a snapshot on a
  LVM volume as in bug 563902), the boot will hang without a prompt for
  [s]kipping or [m]anually fix the situation. However pressing M or S
  still works...

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