[Bug 1168974] [NEW] friendly-recovery tool hangs trying to do almost anything (e.g. "Enable networking")

[Greg Ward]

Public bug reported:

Steps to reproduce:
1. boot into recovery mode
2. from the "Recovery Menu", select "Enable networking"
3. when warned that continuing will remount / in read/write mode,
   select "Yes"

Expected behaviour:
- system runs fsck on root FS, which quickly succeeds (because the
  FS is clean -- I ran fsck manually quite recently)
- system remounts / in read/write mode
- system enables networking
(I would expect all this to take < 1 sec)

Actual behaviour:
- system runs fsck, which quickly succeeds
- and then it hangs: there's no indication of what it's doing and no
  feedback of any kind (screenshot attached: recovery-mode-hang.png)
- there's also no way to dig around and figure out what's going on:
  network interfaces aren't up and no other text consoles are active

My lame attempt at a workaround: hit Ctrl-C. This doesn't help. A
bunch of text flies by, some of which might be relevant to the hang
(screenshot attached: recovery-hang-encrypted-swap.png). Then the
system goes into "failsafeX" mode, which doesn't work for me (probably
a separate bug).

I don't think there is anything special about the "Enable networking"
option here. I've seen very similar (identical?) behaviour trying to run
the "clean" and "dpkg" options after booting into recovery mode.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46-generic 3.5.7.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 14 17:29:46 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-30 (196 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-22 (142 days ago)

** Affects: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal

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Title:
  friendly-recovery tool hangs trying to do almost anything (e.g.
  "Enable networking")

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

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. boot into recovery mode
  2. from the "Recovery Menu", select "Enable networking"
  3. when warned that continuing will remount / in read/write mode,
     select "Yes"

  Expected behaviour:
  - system runs fsck on root FS, which quickly succeeds (because the
    FS is clean -- I ran fsck manually quite recently)
  - system remounts / in read/write mode
  - system enables networking
  (I would expect all this to take < 1 sec)

  Actual behaviour:
  - system runs fsck, which quickly succeeds
  - and then it hangs: there's no indication of what it's doing and no
    feedback of any kind (screenshot attached: recovery-mode-hang.png)
  - there's also no way to dig around and figure out what's going on:
    network interfaces aren't up and no other text consoles are active

  My lame attempt at a workaround: hit Ctrl-C. This doesn't help. A
  bunch of text flies by, some of which might be relevant to the hang
  (screenshot attached: recovery-hang-encrypted-swap.png). Then the
  system goes into "failsafeX" mode, which doesn't work for me (probably
  a separate bug).

  I don't think there is anything special about the "Enable networking"
  option here. I've seen very similar (identical?) behaviour trying to
  run the "clean" and "dpkg" options after booting into recovery mode.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46-generic 3.5.7.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr 14 17:29:46 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-30 (196 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-22 (142 days ago)

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