[Bug 712811] Re: mountall fails with "mountall: fsck /home [369] terminated with status 8"/ Non-existent device - Possible race ?

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Jean-Baptiste,

Is this issue still affecting you?

Every default Ubuntu system uses UUID= syntax in /etc/fstab.  So if
there is a race with the creation of the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ links, it's
strange that only a handful of people should be reporting it.

If you're still seeing this in 12.04, can you attach /var/log/udev log?
There may be something we can see there.

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  mountall fails with "mountall: fsck /home [369] terminated with status
  8"/ Non-existent device - Possible race ?

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: e2fsprogs

  On each boot I get the following message from fsck, which interrupts the boot.
  fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/disk/by-uuid/a14daa42-496b-425a-bc9f-d59cca6a0216
  Possibly non-existent device?
  mountall: fsck /home [369] terminated with status 8
  mountall: Unrecoverable fsck error: /home

  If I press 'I' the the boot continues and the device is correctly
  mounted.

  mountall doesn't fail when:
  - quiet splash is not present on the boot command line
  - mountall verbose mode is on (-v to the exec line in /etc/init/mountall.conf)
  - small delay before starting mountall (sleep .1 before exec line in /etc/init/mountall.conf)

  $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
  total 0
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-02-04 00:05 0cf40974-73f1-4398-a9a4-8df51aec1d64 -> ../../sdb1
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-02-04 00:05 30fc9e49-b3c8-4ea6-aec8-d504895ea7eb -> ../../sda1
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-02-04 00:05 87833b0f-dd6d-4d93-822b-3fe67ea78d69 -> ../../sdb2
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-02-04 00:05 a14daa42-496b-425a-bc9f-d59cca6a0216 -> ../../sdb3

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.14-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb  4 00:09:53 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs

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