Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mountall
I have a system with an encrypted root (well encrypted LVM with root,
home and swap volumes). Since upgrading to mountall 0.2.5 I have only
managed to boot once.
When I boot I get usplash appearing and asking me for the passphrase. I
enter it, and booting continues. All was fine before 0.2.5
Basically mountall (now) times out and puts a message up saying "Press
ESC to enter recovery console". I press ESC and nothing seems to happen.
The first time I did this, it only reported that it was waiting for
/home, I pressed ESC, nothing happened for a few seconds, and then
booting continued as normal.
Before reporting the bug I thought I would repeat to see if this was
consistent, and I haven't managed to boot since - it now says it is
waiting for multiple mounts, including / /tmp /boot and /home. I also
see the message appear twice. Since I cannot see much history in usplash
I have tried booting with splash and quiet removed from the boot options
- actually this time it appears to have booted again (after at least 5
failed attempts) so I will investigate more on that machine.
Anyway, there are two major issues:
1 mountall does not give me a recovery console
2 the timeout seems too short, probably due to the time it takes me to
type my (long) pass phrase. Maybe mountall could have a longer timeout
when any partitions use cryptsetup.
(Although before I rebooted I did confirm that I had mountall 0.2.5 by
looking at /usr/share/doc/mountall/changelog.gz . I did not do any more
package upgrades).
(I could not use apport/ubuntu-bug as it complained that mountall was
not an ubuntu package, and now I can't boot anyway).
** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: ubuntu-boot-experience
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mountall 0.2.5 does not start recovery console after timeout
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456274
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