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

[louisnerys]

I was upgrading to karmic, then an error occurred. Now, when I try to turn my computer on, appears the following error:

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

I removed all items on fstab and the error persists. Can't run dpkg --configure, it returns that was impossible, the file system was read-only. I tryed fsck also, but there was no problem.

[coulhaus]

Exactly the same thing happened to me, I can't get past this error at all, please help.

[rgrig]

What is the output of:

cat /etc/fstab
ls /dev/disk/by-uuid
mount

?

[coulhaus]

What is the output of:

cat /etc/fstab

# <file system>  <mount point>    <type>    <options>    <dump>    <pass>
proc                      /proc                    proc          defaults         0                0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=xxx1 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=xxx2 none swap sw 0 0

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid

xxx3          xxx1
xxx2          xxx4

 mount

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
carrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620_
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)

[pmorton]

I confirm the same problem. What is worse, the root recovery shell that is presented to me is useless, as the file system comes up 'read-only' Is this related to an encrypted directory in the user's home directory?

[slakkie]

Hi, please have a look here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1301766

[coulhaus]

I confirm the same problem. What is worse, the root recovery shell that is presented to me is useless, as the file system comes up 'read-only' Is this related to an encrypted directory in the user's home directory?

Yes, I had the same problem with the recovery shell being read only so I used Knoppix to edit the fstab file but even when I comment all the entries out it still halts on this error.

Knoppix was also able to mount all the drives normally so I know it's not a hardware issue.