Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #527666
  2. Comment #90

Comment 90 for bug 527666

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Matt Grant (mattgrant) wrote : Re: Waiting for /some/partition [SM]

Further to above:

There is still a race condition in mountall, proabably due to teh integration with plymouth boot screen.

Add/change events from udev are being dropped.

When I get the error, I press 'M', and sulogin. The links are there in /dev/<volume_group>, so I believe that udev is getting its job done, and letting mountall know about it.

two things should be done:

1) add code to try 2 mount attempts before giving up on a file system in /etc/fsta on boot.
2) Find the race and fix it.

1) is the belt and braces - not mounting file systems on boot is a SERIOUS problem.

Condition can be debugged when a machines running by creating a volume group with about 10 logical volumes, deactivating it with 'vgchange -a n /dev/<volume_group>, and then activating it. mountall would have to be running in a separate window, not issuing events to upstart init.