incorrectly starts some jobs

network-manager has libraries that are not in /lib

avahi-daemon has libraries not /lib

Please attach your /etc/fstab.

Attached. Not sure how relevant it will be though.

It was very relevant. It showed /usr/lib was a bind mount. I’ll take a look at how mountall handles them.

Please change
    exec mountall --daemon $force_fsck $fsck_fix
to
    exec mountall --daemon $force_fsck $fsck_fix --debug >/dev/mountall.log 2>&1
in /etc/init/mountall.conf, boot the system and attach /dev/mountall.log to this bug report.

Please find it attached.

It does seem odd that it is deciding to skip mounting /usr/lib and /usr/share (both bind mounts).

Please let me know if there is any other debugging I can do.

Please try the version of mountall in the branch linked to this report. It should fix the bug.

Hi Johan,

What is the best way to try that branch? apt-get source mountall and then apply your branch's diff? Or is a binary built from your branch I should download?

Thanks,
Anand

mkdir /tmp/mountall
cd /tmp/mountall
bzr get lp:~ion/ubuntu/lucid/mountall/lucid mountall
cd mountall
sudo apt-get build-dep mountall
debuild -b -us -uc
sudo dpkg --unpack ../*.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

Done.

It seems to work.

I no longer get dropped to a mountall-shell but alas something else is now preventing startup from proceeding

I had to boot the system with init=/bin/bash and then execute 'exec /sbin/init -v --debug' to get this logfile (and also cause the mountall.conf upstart job to run 'start tty2' in its' post-script script).

Please find the log file attached.

Thanks,
Anand

It seems the new problem is not in mountall. I might have missed something when reading the log, but it seems mountall is able to successfully mount everything, emit the relevant events and exit.

sulogin.conf in http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/OMGBroken is a good way to get a shell for debugging a system that doesn’t boot properly, btw.

This bug was fixed in the package mountall - 2.4

---------------
mountall (2.4) lucid; urgency=low

  * conf/mountall-net.conf: only send SIGUSR1 to the main process, not to
    any pre-start or post-stop script we might have; killing the post-stop
    script with -USR1, though an unlikely race to hit, is definitely wrong.
    LP: #506902.

  [ Johan Kiviniemi ]
  * src/mountall.c: The mount table needs to exist for parse_filesystems
    - parse_filesystems() could call mount_proc(), which would call
      find_mount() and segfault. LP: #503212.
  * src/mountall.c: Handle TAG_UNKNOWN. LP: #505748.
  * src/mountall.c: Ensure boredom_timer is set to NULL when freeing
  * src/mountall.c: Default to no action for boredom query if prompt fails.
    LP: #505530.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:30:13 -0800