Comment 28 for bug 439604

-removing the bootwait parameter from /home in fstab does allow the OS to boot again. This implies that adding bootwait to a drive that mountall thinks is should be bootwaiting for

Doesnt work:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=789e1910-5977-4210-8360-fc84b562aba5 / ext3 noatime,relatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=16165661-0a16-4caa-96a8-84e5ea299900 /home ext3 noatime,nodiratime,relatime,bootwait,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=2dd94245-52af-45a8-aae5-fc2c9f14673d none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=128,devmode=664 0 0

Doesnt work either
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime,relatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 noatime,nodiratime,relatime,bootwait,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=128,devmode=664 0 0

does seem to work
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime,relatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 noatime,nodiratime,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=128,devmode=664 0 0

Now, that latter one is the fstab I had at the beginning, the one where sometimes X didn't want to play, I believe, becase home was being fsck'd. I will try and replicate that by queueing up an fsck for the next reboot