mountall stop upstart init when trying to mount /proc/bus/usb
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| mountall (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: mountall
Release: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid
Package: mountall 2.15
Related packages: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2, upstart 0.6.5-6
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux
Description: Since upgrading to lucid my system stop to boot. At boot after entering init, the output log was displaying the mount of the partitions in fstab, then nothing more happened.
Trying to debug this I booted with init=/bin/sh, then: exec upstart, but (I still don't now why) the boot were going normally.
During some time, I used this only available way of booting!
Still looking for a way to solve this bug, I noticed in the log close after the point where it stop a warning for a /proc/bus/usb mount that was in my fstab. I have noticed, yet previously with 9.10 that I have a waring for this line, which is no more appropriate since usbfs is no longer used. But I didn't care.
So I commented the line in fstab, and my system is now booting OK.
The line was:
# set group of usbfs to plugdev (46) (necessary for virtualbox)
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=
Of course it is no longer appropriate, but Jaunty was just giving a warning, and Lucid stop without any message.
I don't now exactly what happened, It seem some process entered a loop eating all resources. I cannot give a more precise diagnostic, since as previously said, when trying to debug the second phase of the boot by launching init by hand, everything went well.
