[Bug 996454] Re: Recovery Mode starts in read-only, does not mount home folder, and hangs when trying to do something

[Paddy Landau]

Steve: Is your /home on a separate partition? If not, then what you saw
was correct behaviour.

I am also a bit confused about what was your old folder and what is your
current one. Looking at /etc/fstab will tell you what *should* have been
mounted.

The workaround that I gave in comment #6 should automatically correct
the situation whether or not your /home is on a separate partition, and
even if you have different folders (such as /tmp and /boot) in separate
partitions.

If your situation is worth looking at closer, start a new thread on
Ubuntu Forums (so that we do not clutter this bug) and post the link
here so that we can discuss it further. If the results are important to
this bug, I'll attempt to replicate it and we can comment further here.
Come to think of it, perhaps we should double-check what happens if /tmp
and /boot are indeed on separate partitions.

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Title:
  Recovery Mode starts in read-only, does not mount home folder, and
  hangs when trying to do something

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Starting with 12.04, when I boot into Recovery Mode:

  1. The file-system is read-only.

  2. The home folder is not mounted (if on a separate partition).

  3. Choosing to check all disks or to start in low-res graphics mode
  asks to mount read-write but then appears to hang; Ctrl-C is required
  to get back to the menu.

  4. I also notice that on 11.04, Recovery Mode uses smaller text
  (taking advantage of the monitor's resolution), whereas 12.04 uses
  large text.

  What should happen:

  1. File-system read-write, or at least a *working* option to change to
  read-write.

  2. The home folder is mounted.

  3. Check all disks or start low-res graphics should do just that,
  instead of hanging.

  4. The text should use the available resolution of the monitor.

  It is as if the Recovery Mode has not been tested at all.

  (I cannot use ubuntu-bug to report the error, as it wants a specific
  package, which of course does not apply here.)

  System: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, fully updated.
  Related thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1975474

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