Login screen is presented before fsck completes

[Alex Peters]

Binary package hint: xsplash

I booted this morning and experienced various errors which suggested a broken partition. Typing "mount" into a terminal alleged that /dev/sdb6 was not mounted at /pub:

# mount /pub
mount: /dev/sdb6 already mounted or /pub busy

Some Googling suggested this:

# fuser -m /dev/sdb6
921

which led to this:

# ps aux | grep 921
root 921 6.3 2.6 71164 55448 ? D 10:02 0:37 fsck.ext3 -a -C10 /dev/sdb6

In other words, the file check for this partition was still occurring by the time I'd logged in and attempted to access those files.

The partition does eventually mount after the process completes, but what if other elements of the startup process rely on files stored on this partition (which in my case, they do)?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 23 10:20:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xsplash 0.8.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: xsplash
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.