Intermittent failure mounting /home?

[Rich Carreiro]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Steve Flynn wrote:

>On 12 October 2012 13:24, Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at rlcarr.com> wrote:
>> fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
>> /dev/xvda: clean, 65383/5690496 files, 1438641/5701632 blocks
>> mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
>> fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
>> fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/xvdc
>> Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
>> mountall: fsck /home [2041] terminated with status 8
>> mountall: Unrecoverable fsck error: /home
>> mountall: Skipping mounting /home since Plymouth is not available

>boot into single user mode,
>umount /home, if it's mounted

When I boot in single user mode fsck runs fine, without
any contention from anything else, and the filesystem is
clean, and /home is mounted automaticallt.

When I go back to multi-user boot the intermittent
failures begin again.  They seem to be "streaky".  When
there is a problem, it appears to remain problematic
boot after boot until (with no changes in anything I'm going)
it starts being fine, and then will be fine for a while.

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Rich Carreiro                            rlcarr at rlcarr.com