[Bug 1096307] Re: Boot process hang because 'mountall' fails

[Zentai Andras]

I experienced the same boot hangup on a 64 bit 12.04 Ubuntu after the
update of  plymouth to Version: 0.8.2-2ubuntu31

I had a missing swap partition in my /etc/fstab file which triggered some mountall warning before. 
Seems like the new plymouth takes this error seriously and the system will not start properly until I remove this not existing swap partition from the fstab file.

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Title:
    Boot process hang because 'mountall' fails

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  We suspect a bug in Ubuntu 12.04 where boot process is hanged because ‘mountall’ fails due to an HDD failure.
    The issue can be easily reproduced through either of the following scenario on Ubuntu 12.04

    1. Mount a non-existing disk device node. 
    2. Disk/partition error. You can simulate such error by corrupting a working partition using DD command.

    In either case, you will see system stuck at mount procedure and never reach the login prompt. 
    I have tried some option like “timeout=30”, “optional”, update mountall to v2.46. But none of them is working.

    Thanks

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