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

[Steve Langasek]

Ed, which version of mountall do you have installed here?  By design,
mountall should notify the user of this mount failure via plymouth, but
as your sample fstab entries show mount points that are not required for
the OS to boot, they should not block the rest of the system from being
started.  As there have been updates to mountall in 12.04 related to
ordering of filesystem events, it's important to know exactly which
version of the package you reproduced this with.

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Title:
    Boot process hang because 'mountall' fails

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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