[ /home : waiting for UUID] issue to boot

Asked by laplanche

Hi
I encountered the same issue described by other users but can t find the solution :

After grub loading, whichever the recovery mode i use, i get the message

One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet mounted: (ESC for recover shell)
 /home : waiting for UUID 67d51bb0-516b-4190-ba87-7985d4b123a2.

# blkid give :

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="2c112151-ff2f-42eb-b552-3de99b2d49c4" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="3285efe0-d1d4-4e59-8418-7846a66eac2c" TYPE="swap"

suggesting that the line /dev/sda3: UUID="67d51bb0-516b-4190-ba87-7982d4b123a2" TYPE="ext4" is missing ?

When i boot the live CD Ubuntu and
- go to Gparted, no UUID are given for sda3
- go to systeme/administration/disk utility my partition sda3 has the status "unrecognized"

When i boot puppy linux, i cannot mount sda3

When in the shell i type cat etc/fstab
the 3 sda are found with the right format and same UUID (ext 4 for my sda3 and the address given in the error message)

How can i solve the issue, especially that sda3 contain all my data for which i have no recent backup.

Thanks

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Jon Charge (seropith) said :
#1

What filesystem is on that partition?

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Jon Charge (seropith) said :
#2

Or rather, can you confirm that the fs is "ext4"? It is a bit unclear. I had a similar issue that I resolved by booting to the livecd and editing the fstab manually with the uid.

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Jon Charge (seropith) said :
#3

One more, can you attach the fstab to this question?

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laplanche (laplanche-loic) said :
#4

The original filesystem on sda3 is ext4.

I am quite new in linux world, how can i attach fstab ?
In the terminal of the live cd, if i do cat /etc/fstab i see the fstab from the live CD not from my config
To access my config fstab i go to the recovery shell but cannot copy/paste etc...
Is there any way form the live CD terminal to retrieve my system information ?

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laplanche (laplanche-loic) said :
#5

 I write down what i saw in the recovery shell :

/ was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=2c112151-ff2f-42eb-b552-3deppb2d49c4 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/home was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=67d51bb0-516b-4190-ba87-7982d4b123a2 / ext4 defaults 0 2
swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=3285efe0-d1d4-4e59-8418-786466eac2c none swap sw 0 0

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delance (olivier-delance) said :
#6

Usually, the simplest is reinstalling Grub. Follow this link:
     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD

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laplanche (laplanche-loic) said :
#7

I try the 3 methods for reinstalling grub described in the link and still have the same issue.

- When i boot, i find the grub menu with 8 versions of the kernel from linux 2.6.31-14 to -22 with their respective recovery mode.
- Whichever i select, the ubuntu logo appear and then the message appear :

One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet mounted: (ESC for recover shell)
 /home : waiting for UUID 67d51bb0-516b-4190-ba87-7985d4b123a2.

this UUID is my sda3 (data) that the system cannot find, i cannot mount it and seem invisible to my system

I want to try the method that Jon Charge propose, could anyone explain it in detail how should i proceed in the console from the live CD ?

Last but not least, if i have any mean to mount sda3 and then save my data; it is my prio 1, after i can still reformat and reinstall ubuntu, if everything fail;

Thanks for your help.

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delance (olivier-delance) said :
#8

It fixed nothing because you have not a Grub2 problem.
Your file /etc/fstab is wrong.
1) Boot on Ubuntu Live CD
2) "Try without install"
3) Applications->Accessories->Terminal
4) run command
        sudo blkid
to get UUID of sda3
5) mount partition with "/" folder on /mnt
6) gedit /mnt/etc/fstab
and update UUID associated to sda3 (or replace UUID by /dev/sda3, as it was before)
7) reboot

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laplanche (laplanche-loic) said :
#9

Cf my first post i do not see sda3 with blkid

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="2c112151-ff2f-42eb-b552-3de99b2d49c4" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="3285efe0-d1d4-4e59-8418-7846a66eac2c" TYPE="swap"

When i edit fstab, it seem to be fine :, the UUID that ubuntu look for at boot qnd did not find is the same that the one decribed for sda3 in fsab :

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=2c112151-ff2f-42eb-b552-3de99b2d49c4 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=67d51bb0-516b-4190-ba87-7982d4b123a2 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=3285efe0-d1d4-4e59-8418-7846a66eac2c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

So i do not see what i shoud change at step 6)

I was able to mount manually sda3 by :

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt -t ext4

But i can t access some of my file/folder marked by a cross for which access was restricted ! The strange things is that these files contains confidential data...? I don t want to be paranoiac but isn it strange ?

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laplanche (laplanche-loic) said :
#10

I know understand the content of delance message

And execute step 6 with success, now my issue is solved.

I learn a lot about linux since a week now !
I have all my data !
I was really paranoiac !

Thanks for your help, appreciated !!
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