Bug 12837

Summary:	Mageia 4.0 fails to boot if I remove my USB sticks
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Peter Coates <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Peter Coates 2014-02-21 11:17:22 CET

Description of problem:

I have 2 USB memory sticks.  Mageia 4.0 loads perfectly well while the 2 memory sticks are attached to USB ports.  If I remove them, Mageia will not reach the login prompt and drops out to a text prompt, asking me to enter my root password and enter journalctl -xb to view system logs.  If I reattach my memory sticks, Mageia will load successfully.  This is only a problem with Mageia.  All of my other linux distributions, and I have a lot of the main ones installed, are not affected by this issue.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia 4.0

How reproducible:

This might be reproducible on other installations by removing any mounted USB sticks and trying to reboot.

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Comment 1 David Walser 2014-02-21 19:17:38 CET

As I understand it, you need to add "nofail" to the list of options for the entries for those devices in the /etc/fstab file.

CC: sysadmin-bugs => (none)
Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2014-02-22 21:57:36 CET

Or better remove them.
You should not add mount points for removable media to your /etc/fstab

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Peter Coates 2014-02-24 21:18:10 CET

Thanks for your comments and quick response.  I've commented out the entries for the 2 USB sticks in my /etc/fstab as you've suggested and Mageia now loads fine. 

From what I've seen of Mageia 4.0 so far I'm very impressed.  It looks very professional.

Peter

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED