It sounds like you experienced the problem where mountall would block waiting for Plymouth, without noticing that (a) plymouth wasn't running or (b) what it was waiting for actually showed up
This was fixed in 2.10, and you say you've not experienced the bug for a while which fits If you have a reoccurance of this problem, please do reopen the bug! ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- Default Plymouth theme is sometimes stuck in the loading animation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs