Bug#829180: mounts sometimes fail at boot

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 14/07/16 02:36, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi Daniel
> 
> Am 01.07.2016 um 10:35 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>> Severity: important Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u2
>> 
>> Since upgrading to jessie/systemd, one particular system
>> frequently stops in the single-user mode password prompt during
>> booting.
>> 
>> Looking at the journalctl output, I usually find that some mount
>> has failed with a line like this:
>> 
>> 
>> /dev/mapper/vg00-name device already mounted or
>> /foo/bar/mountpoint busy
>> 
>> 
>> The actual mountpoint is not the same each time the error
>> occurs.
>> 
>> Sometimes there is more than one filesystem that fails to mount.
> 
> Is the mount simply attempted twice/multiple times or is the file
> system not mounted at all?
> 

When I log in using the single user mode prompt, I see the filesystem
is not mounted at all

I type the mount command manually and it mounts immediately

> 
> Could you boot with systemd.log_level=debug on the kernel command
> line and attach the output of journactl -alb from a failing boot.
> 


OK, I will try that and report back
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