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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Adding "nofail" to the /etc/fstab entry for /mnt/windows will make the
system boot again for you, if you expect breakage there and having
/mnt/windows is not essential for your system.

All mounts with "auto" but not "nofail" are considered essential for the
system to boot, as everything else would just be heuristics and
guesswork.

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Summary changed:

- dual boot machine: desktop fails to start if Windows partition hibernated
+ Starts emergency mode for failed "auto" fstab mounts (not marked with nofail)

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Title:
  Starts emergency mode for failed "auto" fstab mounts (not marked with
  nofail)

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Problem is with systemd, or with how the installation configured
  systemd.

  Machine is a 64bit system, AMD CPU and graphics card, dual boot.
  Windows 8.1 is on sda1 and 2, and Lubuntu 15.04 is on sda5 (swap), 6
  (/), and 7 (/home).  I installed Windows first.  During install of
  Lubuntu, I added sda2 to the list of partitions to mount during boot.
  I chose /mnt/windows for the mount point.

  Windows 8.1 defaults to this Fast Startup in which instead of doing a
  real shutdown, it hibernates the partition, not cleanly unmounting it.
  After booting Windows then rebooting and choosing Ubuntu, the system
  does not bring up the GUI, instead dropping to a text screen, saying:

  ACPI PCC probe failed.
  starting version 219.
  welcome to emergency mode....

  The only error in the logs is that the system can't mount
  /mnt/windows.  Those other messages about ACPI and version 219 are red
  herrings.  I don't know why systemd is configured to think that
  /mnt/windows is critical to the system, and why it responds by
  refusing to run the GUI (staying in runlevel 1 maybe?).

  After changing Windows to disable its Fast Startup and then booting
  into Lubuntu, the system works normally and LXDE comes up as expected.

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