fstab related boot problem

[Graham Watkins]

Tom H wrote:
>> I'm having an intermittent boot problem where the system appears to hang
>> and I get the following message:
>>     
>
>   
>> One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be
>> mounted: /home: waiting for UUID=7x6fcee8-9505-437f-bb29-b9c894041172
>> swap waiting for UUID=59a31579-1a6c-46a8-9ecb-7d1679a9943e
>> Press ESC to enter a recovery shell
>>     
>
> Please post the outputs of
> blkid
> blkid -p
> cat /etc/fstab
> fdisk -l
> cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
>   
graham at graham-desktop:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="c34fbcf3-d91c-4b24-80b1-576b1b0f90b8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="3d05177c-33c4-4d4b-9c76-9103ae9384e7" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: UUID="c2e0053d-a10f-4b1a-8e1b-90ac0bd036b1" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: UUID="f1ad0f70-0bf4-4aa6-93d5-389178a1f51f" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: UUID="3990d536-3220-4222-959a-1ee19b950458" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda9: UUID="7f6fcee8-9505-437f-bb29-b9c894041172" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="stuff" UUID="a61ec8d9-5fbe-4162-97f3-99bbcb1d5bbe" 
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

graham at graham-desktop:~$ blkid -p
The low-probe option requires a device
(Somehow I don't think this is what you were expecting - I assume the 
command is incomplete.)

graham at graham-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc                                       /proc          proc         
defaults                    0  0 
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c34fbcf3-d91c-4b24-80b1-576b1b0f90b8  /              ext3         
relatime,errors=remount-ro  0  1 
# /boot was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=f1ad0f70-0bf4-4aa6-93d5-389178a1f51f  /boot          ext3         
relatime                    0  2 
# /home was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=7f6fcee8-9505-437f-bb29-b9c894041172  /home          ext3         
relatime                    0  2 
# /usr was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=c2e0053d-a10f-4b1a-8e1b-90ac0bd036b1  /usr           ext3         
relatime                    0  2 
# /var was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=3990d536-3220-4222-959a-1ee19b950458  /var           ext3         
relatime                    0  2 
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=3d05177c-33c4-4d4b-9c76-9103ae9384e7  none           swap         
sw                          0  0 
# swap was on /dev/sdb7 during installation
UUID=59a31579-1a6c-46a8-9ecb-7d1b79a9943e  none           swap         
sw                          0  0 
/dev/scd0                                  /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660  
user,noauto,exec,utf8       0  0 
/dev/sdb1                                  /media/stuff   ext3         
errors=remount-ro,users     0  0 

graham at graham-desktop:~$ fdisk -l
graham at graham-desktop:~$

(No output at all.)

graham at graham-desktop:~$ cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
cat: /boot/grub/grub.cfg: No such file or directory

Hope this all tells you more than it tells me - although the UUID for 
/home appears to match.

This problem is not unique to me - there seems to be a whole thread on 
it in Ubuntu Forums which I haven't yet had a chance to read in detail.  
However it does make it appear less likely that it's down to a failing 
hard disc.

http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1325528

Cheers,

Graham