[Bug 1072819] [NEW] disconnected drive stalls boot: prompt can be hidden

[Daniel Hollocher]

Public bug reported:

the boot pauses if I have a drive disconnected.  There is a prompt
asking to skip mounting the drive, but that prompt disappears if you
exit the splash screen and go back.  So, either the boot shouldn't
pause, or the prompt should remain shown.  The drive is just extra
storage, and not essential for boot, ie, /home / /boot are all available
on the primary drive

There are two fstab entries for the disconnected drive

The prompt disappears if I switch away the little splash screen, either
with ctrl+alt+F#, or esc.


The way I ran into this problem is that I disconnected one drive to plug in a friends drive.  Then my computer failed to boot (as I missed the prompt about the missing mount points).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: mountall 2.42
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 29 13:21:00 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mountall
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-11 (48 days ago)

** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 quantal running-unity

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Title:
  disconnected drive stalls boot: prompt can be hidden

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  the boot pauses if I have a drive disconnected.  There is a prompt
  asking to skip mounting the drive, but that prompt disappears if you
  exit the splash screen and go back.  So, either the boot shouldn't
  pause, or the prompt should remain shown.  The drive is just extra
  storage, and not essential for boot, ie, /home / /boot are all
  available on the primary drive

  There are two fstab entries for the disconnected drive

  The prompt disappears if I switch away the little splash screen,
  either with ctrl+alt+F#, or esc.

  
  The way I ran into this problem is that I disconnected one drive to plug in a friends drive.  Then my computer failed to boot (as I missed the prompt about the missing mount points).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: mountall 2.42
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Oct 29 13:21:00 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: mountall
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-11 (48 days ago)

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