Intermittent failure mounting /home?

[Steve Flynn]

On 12 October 2012 15:47, Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at rlcarr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Steve Flynn wrote:

> 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.

Good.

> 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.

Can you please post the output of dmesg or your syslog and indicate
whether the boot we're seeing was clean or had a failure, if it's not
obvious from the output. If there's a great deal of output, you might
want to consider using a pastebin and posting a link to the file.

-- 
Steve

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