[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#524094: base: Sometimes usb disk fails to mount on boot

[Dr. Alex Sheppard]

Package: base
Severity: important


USB disk partitions usually mount fine on boot (entries are in fstab, using UUID to identify partitions), but sometimes they do not. On these occasions, doing 'mount -a' as root when the system has finished booting mounts them without a problem. 

The disk has some powersaving feature and takes a few seconds to 'wake up.' I wonder if the boot scripts call the mount command before the device nodes have been created??

Next time this occurs, i will look for relevant details in logs and add to the bug report.

Anything else helpful i can provide?

Alex


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash