Comment 11 for bug 506727

Some progress on this bug. With the (recent) update the moving the png libraries into /lib (for Plymouth), I've been gettings things going further.

Unfortunately tonight it all broke again -- so I decided to figure things out as much as possible.

I stripped /etc/init/ to a bare minimum: that provided by upstart and just mountall.conf

i.e.

eve:[~]% ls /etc/init/
control-alt-delete.conf rc-sysinit.conf rcS.conf tty2.conf tty4.conf tty6.conf
mountall.conf rc.conf tty1.conf tty3.conf tty5.conf upstart-udev-bridge.conf

And I still could get booting to work.

I modified tty2.conf to start on starting (like mountall.conf); and modified the mountall.conf job and prefixed it with strace. It appears that upstart does not like ptracing though strace and it hangs the job.

That was lucky as I manually went and run the mountall program via strace.