Bug#785525: systemd fails to boot if non-essential block device is missing

[Martin Pitt]

Control: tag -1 wontfix

Hello Thibaut,

Thibaut VARENE [2015-05-17 14:41 +0200]:
> Just upgraded my system from wheezy to jessie. Boot stopped after initial reboot, with prompt to enter root password. After looking at the logs, it seems that systemd choked on this line of my fstab:
> 
> UUID="8633-12F1"	/media/WDX360	vfat	user,auto,utf8=no,iocharset=iso8859-1	0	2
> 
> That's a line I added for convenience whenever I plug a specific USB
> drive to the machine. Granted, it doesn't have the nofail flag

Indeed, that *and* it's marked as "auto".

> and it does have a 2 pass_no (instead of 0), but this never caused
> any problem in wheezy, so the new behavior, and the fact that it
> entirely halts the boot process (the machine isn't even remotely
> accessible) is quite a huge change from previous behavior...

It's a change indeed, but IMHO a correct one. Aside from "auto" and
"nofail" there is no other indication whether a file system in fstab
should be considered "essential" (in your terms) or not. That's
precisely what these flags are for. sysvinit might have not complained
about this situation, but that doesn't mean that I'd like to
proliferate that bug forever.

Hence I consider this a "wontfix".

Thanks for understanding,

Martin
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