[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#557011: mountall fails during boot when a device file doesn't exist even noauto is set

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.87dsf-8
Severity: normal

Hi.

I'm not sure if this really belongs to initscripts, but as running  
"mount -a" from the already booted system works I'd suggest so.

I have a fstab, that contains entries whose device-files do not exist  
per default (at least not during boot), but the options include noauto.

When booting with such a fstab, the boot process fails, complaining  
that the device file doesn't exist, and goes into maintenance mode.

As it should not mount "noauto" filesystems anyway, why does it have  
to fail here?


A typical use case for the above scenario could be: Using encrypted  
filesystems with dm-crypt.
The /dev/mapper/something device might be created manually when the  
user sets up the mapping (either manually or via cryptdisks_start),...  
still one might want to have a fstab entry for this.


Cheers,
Chris.



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Debian Release: squeeze/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-fermat (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                     7.5-6      GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   3.2.1      Miscellaneous utilities  
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ii  libc6                         2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2  
init scrip
ii  mount                         2.16.1-4   Tools for mounting and  
manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                       2.87dsf-8  System-V-like runlevel  
change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.87dsf-8  System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.9-1   ext2/ext3/ext4 file  
system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.8-1     utilities that use the  
proc file s

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