On Fedora 44, found a potential issue. Using KDE partition manager to format my drive and edit the mount point results in a broken fstab entry. After reboot, this caused my system to enter emergency rescue mode where I found the issue in the boot logs. Did I do something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks for any help.
Steps taken:
Delete existing partition
New partition (screenshot)
Edit mount point (screenshot)
Select pre-created mount folder
Apply
See broken fstab entry
Very interesting. I saw this once, about a year ago, but I hadn’t been able to reproduce it.
If you follow the same steps again, do you get the same broken fstab entry?
This happened first on a fresh Fedora install I did from 43 > 44. I reinstalled again after seeing the emergency loader because I thought I had messed up Nvidia drivers. After another reinstall, it happened again because I repeated the exact same process again. That is when I found the broken entry it created in the boot logs. If you go into KDE patition manager and set the mount point again after the drive has been formatted it will create a valid entry. I have been able to replicate since using these steps.
Nice work. It would be worth adding this info as a comment on this bug ticket:
That ticket seems to be talking about basically the same issue, but in a different scenario than yours (creating a new partition table, partition and mount point all at the same time).
