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Bug 82229 - non existent label mounts even with the 'noauto' option cause boot time drop to emergency shell
Summary: non existent label mounts even with the 'noauto' option cause boot time drop ...
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Depends On:
Blocks: 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-20 04:50 UTC by Matthew Galgoci
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:33 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-09-29 20:34:56 UTC
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Description Matthew Galgoci 2003-01-20 04:50:47 UTC 
Description of problem:

I have a removable disk drive that I want to mount using a filesystem label.

The drive contains an ext3 filesystem labeled as /mnt/shemp

/mnt/shemp exists

I also have the following entry in /etc/fstab:

LABEL=/mnt/shemp   /mnt/shemp              ext3    noauto        1 1

Upon rebooting without /mnt/shep available in the system, I am dropped to 
a filesystem repair shell (of course first prompting for the root password).

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

initscripts-7.04-1

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a non-existent label mount to /etc/fstab with the noauto option
2. reboot
3. watch it prompt you for your root password and to fix your filesystem
    
Actual results:

You are prompted to fix the filesystem

Expected results:

The non-existent label with the noauto option should simply be ignored since 
you are not going to mount the filesystem automagically anyhow.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-01-20 20:40:15 UTC 
Did this happen previously?
Comment 2 Matthew Galgoci 2003-01-20 21:07:03 UTC 
I could have sworn it worked before, but I just tried on an advanced server
2.1 with all current updates and it indeed failed.

However, on a hunch I changed the fs_freq and fs_passno fields both to 0 and 
the system booted without complaint. Weird.

Is it semantically correct behaviour? 

I will test the beta4 box again tonight when I get home to ensure that the same
behaviour holds.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:34:56 UTC 
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.
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