Bug#756103: systemd should be more forgiving of fstab errors

[Andrei POPESCU]

Control: reopen -1
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 systemd should be more forgiving of fstab errors

On Sb, 26 iul 14, 18:54:01, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 26 iul 14, 17:29:21, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 
> > You simply have a typo here :-P
> > 
> > "udf,iso9660,user,noauto" should be
> > "udf,iso9660 user,noauto"
> > 
> > note the space vs ','
> > 
> > Closing the bug as a misconfiguration issue.
> 
> Oh, this is embarrassing, I just "fixed" that yesterday, because I 
> didn't realise those don't belong together.
> 
> Now I replaced the ',' with a tab so that I don't make this mistake 
> again next time I look at my fstab before my first green tea cup. Sorry 
> to have wasted your time :(

Hi again,

I have been thinking about this incident since then and watching all the 
"system doesn't boot due to fstab errors" reports (I'm subscribed to 
both -user and -pkg-systemd-maintainers).

I'm not sure it's a good idea to just fail the boot completely whenever 
there are errors like mine in fstab, but instead it would be much 
friendlier if systemd would try to bring up as much of the system as 
possible and start the emergency console only if e.g. / and /usr are 
missing.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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