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[Salukibob <salukibob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

After upgrading from Utopic to Vivid, I started getting some strange
systemd errors and a boot time that was excessively long. After a good
long while of investigation I discovered that it was due to my system
having a seperate /usr partition.

The two solutions seem to be to a) move /usr into the root partition, or
b) mount /usr early in the initramfs. I'd prefer the b) option, but this
is not available as mounting /usr from initramfs is only available in
versions of initramfs-tools >= 0.117. The current version in vivid is
0.103.

This is from the release file for initramfs-tools:

  * Mount /usr if present in the /etc/fstab on the mounted rootfs
    (Closes: #652459)

This issue must be affecting thousands of people who have a partitioning
scheme that isn't just 'all on one partition', so I would ask that the
version of initramfs-tools on vivid is upgraded to at least version
0.117 as a matter of urgency. This issue was not present in trusty.

Thanks
Rob

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Mount /usr into initramfs

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading from Utopic to Vivid, I started getting some strange
  systemd errors and a boot time that was excessively long. After a good
  long while of investigation I discovered that it was due to my system
  having a seperate /usr partition.

  The two solutions seem to be to a) move /usr into the root partition,
  or b) mount /usr early in the initramfs. I'd prefer the b) option, but
  this is not available as mounting /usr from initramfs is only
  available in versions of initramfs-tools >= 0.117. The current version
  in vivid is 0.103.

  This is from the release file for initramfs-tools:

    * Mount /usr if present in the /etc/fstab on the mounted rootfs
      (Closes: #652459)

  This issue must be affecting thousands of people who have a
  partitioning scheme that isn't just 'all on one partition', so I would
  ask that the version of initramfs-tools on vivid is upgraded to at
  least version 0.117 as a matter of urgency. This issue was not present
  in trusty.

  Thanks
  Rob

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