9.10 2 10.10 Can't mount drives @ bootup, OK later

[AbeJarano]

Since upgrade 10.10 boots giving errors with most drives in fstab (from 9.10). It's OK with the root and boot partitions and I guess it sees the swap drive but all others ~nada. It says something like --ERROR your drive UUID=xxx... could not be mounted because it is not ready yet or ... it's missing--. It asks if I want to fix the problem or skip it and I skip. Do have missing hot plugs and I've a few Windows and one EXT3 drive it don't see. If "sudo mount -a", everything on board is mounted. THe problem remains though, every reboot. THese are SATA2 drives, mostly Windows, one EXT3. All are AHCI in the BIOS.

THanks always! Here is my latest boot.log

$ cat boot.log
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sdd6: clean, 305861/1859584 files, 4755819/7413989 blocks
/dev/sdd2: clean, 63/244976 files, 112229/498012 blocks
/dev/sdd3: clean, 106300/1071056 files, 887812/4276992 blocks
mount: special device UUID-549E-D284 does not exist
mountall: mount /media/Sansa [1045] terminated with status 32
mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /media/Sansa
init: ureadahead-other main process (1052) terminated with status 4
init: ureadahead-other main process (1057) terminated with status 4
init: ureadahead-other main process (1064) terminated with status 4
Skipping /media/Sansa at user request
Skipping /home/antbat at user request
Skipping /media/Movies at user request
Skipping /media/Stor-0 at user request
Skipping /media/Download at user request
Skipping /media/TVshows at user request
Skipping /media/Music at user request
Skipping /home/antbat/SSD at user request
Skipping /home/antbat/MoviesVuze at user request
Skipping /home/antbat/Robert at user request
Skipping /media/Vista/1 at user request
Skipping /media/Vista/2 at user request
Skipping /media/Vista/3 at user request
Skipping /media/Vista/4 at user request
Skipping UUID=7edb5a06-f1d7-48ae-b783-155e9ea2fc31 at user request
Skipping UUID=1d7ed777-ce16-45e8-9c2f-5d67bc4a6934 at user request
* Starting AppArmor profiles Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox
[ OK ]
Loading the saved-state of the serial devices...
* Setting sensors limits [ OK ]
* Speech-dispatcher configured for user sessions
* Starting the Winbind daemon winbind [ OK ]
* Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ]
* PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions
* Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support

.....Here is a portion of my fstab, comments are from a prior upgrade...


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=987d1dc4-3bda-46a0-9b5a-98dad309e11c / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=625a2372-c1a4-4f65-b88d-9dac833f0a62 /boot ext2 relatime 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=a758d243-b823-4702-8c41-861926daa24e none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=93274ef2-b4d2-4ea7-ad07-bdfe1b748779 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

# antbat home drive
#/dev/sdc2 /home/antbats ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
UUID=b4334ce0-71eb-4b50-b9cf-f4d844ed2101 /home/antbat ext3 relatime 0 0
#

#
UUID=46ACB894ACB87FCB /media/Vista/1 ntfs relatime,ro 0 0
#
UUID=A046450E4644E69E /media/Vista/2 ntfs relatime,ro 0 0
#
UUID=F0F44656F4461EEA /media/Vista/3 ntfs relatime,ro 0 0
#
UUID=D2C48061C48049A5 /media/Vista/4 ntfs relatime,ro 0 0
#
UUID=1E6C49056C48D963 /media/Windows1 ntfs relatime,ro 0 0
#
#Asstd. Linux system volumes
#
# Kubuntu 10
UUID=42776a76-e365-4536-ac52-50db310c6bdb /media/Kubuntu1 ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#
...
#SSD drive
UUID=1E6C49056C48D963 /home/antbat/SSD ntfs relatime,ro 0 0
...
# Swaps
#SSD
UUID=c9cb0362-25be-42b7-afe7-a2f54e0df559 none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sdb7
UUID=7edb5a06-f1d7-48ae-b783-155e9ea2fc31 none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sdb7
UUID=1d7ed777-ce16-45e8-9c2f-5d67bc4a6934 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[Frogs Hair]

If you upgraded directly from 9.10 to 10.10 that could be your problem , for best results it is recommended that upgrade 9.10 > 10.04 > 10.10.

[holiday]

I was having trouble with drives mounting at boot until I installed Storage Device Manager to configure my drives.

[AbeJarano]

Is that PySDM?

[AbeJarano]

from the developer at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502


ureadahead exits with status 4!

This isn't actually a bug

Status 4 (usually ureadahead-other exits with this) means that you had a mountpoint in your fstab that didn't have any files on it needed during boot. Probably that drive with all those MP3s and movie files on it.

It still reads everything needed during boot, the status is just there for me to debug other issues.

The real bug here is that Upstart spams the console with that message, even though the ureadahead-other.conf file has "normal exit 4" in it!

(In other words, If your boot fails, this message is completely unrelated to that! It's more likely that there is an issue with the X server starting, or an issue with init scripts not being run -- a good clue might be whether you see a login: screen after pressing Alt+F2)

My comment: The thread is closed. I tried removing ureadahead with apt-get. It's removed and the system seems to boot a lot faster, but I'm still getting the 'spamming' and I have to skip, skip, skip. I do see a very basic login screen. On the bright side my present volumes are now being mounted.

[holiday]

Is that PySDM?

Yes.