check disk forced, but fails
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| upstart (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: upstart
When i have an unclean exit from ubuntu 10.04, beta 1 or 2, eg, through running out of battery, my computer is forced to go through fsck, to check the disk. It gets to 70%, then goes extremely slowly, or stops. Pressing "C" to cancel does not work. "Escape" blanks the screen, Escape again goes back to the waiting screen. My computer is an eeepc, model 701. Because it is a flash disk, not a hard disk drive, i've formated it as ext2, without a swap file. (in the belief that it reduces writes).
I have solved this by booting into it with a live cd, then using gparted to check the disk. Then I can relog in without the check being invoked.
This is too much for the user experience, if it is going to happen every time a ubuntu session is killed ungracefully (on my computer, this is the case.) I feel there should be more options: it'd be better if I could just get to the check disk that gparted does as an option when check disk is forced. I notice that with previous ubuntu editions it wasnt as hard to get back into ubuntu.
I can see that it is best to check the disk when the exit out of Ubuntu isnt proper, but at the moment Lucid effectively locks you out, at least for my setup.
| Rune K. Svendsen (runeks) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 554079, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.