http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575993 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575993#c0 Summary: System only boots into maintenance mode if stale entry in /etc/fstab is present Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bugzilla@go4more.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; de-DE) AppleWebKit/532.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) rekonq Safari/532.4 I recently made the following experience: I wanted to format an external harddrive (USB, GPT layout, former filesystem HFS+, new filesystem ext3). I also, without thinking much about it, told YaST's partitioner to "create a mountpoint" for this device. Later on I cancelled the format operation, as it took too much time. When trying to start the system the next time, booting always stopped when mounting the devices in /etc/fstab, as it insisted that a fsck would be necessary on the external harddrive. This failed as the superblock was not available (quite plausible, as the harddisk was no longer connected, but trying to reconnect in further boot trials didn't help either). Therefore the system only booted into the console maintenance mode. Restoring was only possible by removing the stale entry for the external hd from /etc/fstab. I don't know if it is expected behaviour to make the system unbootable because of entries in /etc/fstab which are not available at the moment. Even if they are obviously not relevant for the system. But as formatting an external hd is something even non-experienced users will do now and then with YaST, I think this should not happen. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: Boot process should not be stopped because of fsck's on not available, non-system-critical entries in /etc/fstab. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.