Am 21.02.20 um 15:00 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 21/02/2020 11.49, zb4ng wrote:
Am 21.02.20 um 11:23 schrieb Per Jessen:
zb4ng wrote:
Please note, that the problem at hand is already solved, but the underlying issue gets in my way from time to time, so I wanted to tell (or rant 😉) about it.
Two days ago, I wasn't able to boot my system (LEAP 15.1): X-Server didn't start and I could only log into maintenance mode with no network either. First, I suspected a botched update, but the kernel-firmware was updated a couple of days before and I had successfully booted in the mean time. So, I was dumbfounded, but then I remembered to look into /etc/fstab and found an entry of a USB drive that I had plugged in and removed. I deleted said entry and LEAP booted just fine.
There is no reason for a USB stick to end up in fstab - unless maybe if you booted from USB ?
I just remembered that I tried to format the stick with YAST and then forgot about it and removed it.
That was your original problem, yast adds such a line. It is a convenience, but with usb sticks it causes a problem.
Next time, install and use "gparted" instead.
But hours later, when I rebooted, I just got the "maintenance" prompt and couldn't see the connection!
Well, the emergency prompt should have told you the reason: I can not mount "whatever". It may have said so but flowed out of the screen. I find the emergency text since systemd not helpful. I would suggest that
I found the message on the screen not helpful either, at least if you don't know what you are looking for. (The last message before the prompt was some NVidia-stuff). Also, I noticed that the network didn't work either, so this was misleading, too.
you do it again and look carefully at the text, then if the reason is not clear, take a photo and report in bugzilla.
I'll look into that.
Unfortunately, the boot process has no way of knowing if some disk mentioned in fstab is important or not, it can only abort boot and ask.
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