One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted

**plunder** · November 8th, 2009

Ever since I upgraded through Update Manager, the day after release, I'm getting the "One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted" thing. Everything boots normally, it seems as though everything is fine.. here is the

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

i'm interested in correcting it, anyone have any ideas where the problem is?

ubuntu 9.04 64-bit -> ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
filesystem: ext3

**josekym** · November 8th, 2009

Hello,

I have the same problem (using Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit), which appeared after I updated from 9.04 via Update Manager.

Even though I get the message on startup, my system still boots fine and seems to be ok during operation. I guess it's just a cosmetic issue?

**plunder** · November 8th, 2009

yeah there doesn't seem to be an error in my /etc/fstab and when I

Code:

sudo mount -a

I get no errors there, hopefully we can resolve this rogue error

**fedexfrt357** · November 8th, 2009

Same here guys, upgraded to 9.10 from 9.04 thru update manager...getting the same message at boot. As with yours, it does continue and seem to be fine...

I am dual booting with XP, and the "27 GB Filesystem" (windows) is not mounting at boot... It mounts manually from desktop without any problem, and I guess its really not a big deal... but it would be nice for it all to go error free...

**fedexfrt357** · November 8th, 2009

Well, maybe I'm on the wrong track here...

I followed the instructions here... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785263
and got the windows partition to mount automatically, but I still get the same message at boot... "head spinning"... lol

**plunder** · November 8th, 2009

I'm not making any progress on this solution, I can't seem to find anything wrong

I like your sig tho, It's not broke but I wanna fix it! (not till its broke tho)

**winotree** · November 8th, 2009

So did anyone other than me repartition their system after installing version 9.10? I didn't need the swap file that was installed so deleted it and that error message showed just afterwards -- in fact it specifically mentioned that a swap file was on sda5 at installation. I commented that line out in fstab and that was the end of that. Not elegant but effective.

**plunder** · November 9th, 2009

i didn't alter my partitions when I upgraded

**omegamormegil** · November 9th, 2009

You are probably getting this message because fsck is checking one of your disks for errors and the boot process is waiting for the device to become available.

If you just wait, it should complete after a few minutes and the system should boot. If you power off the computer during this process, or if you are forced to power if off after the system locks up, you will get this prompt the next time you start the computer.