mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mountall (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mountall
mountall should cause fsck to show progress information (-C 0).
Especially on large FS that take very long to fsck (sometimes many hours) it is very important
to know that the fsck isn't actually hanging and still working.
It is not possible to log in via console or ssh to check the status even for filesystems that are not boot- essential.
Plymouth splash screen is disabled as this machine is a server.
This behaviour has caused trouble several times already as the system was believed to be hanging and unresponsive and got rebooted while the fsck was still running.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: mountall 2.25ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 19 11:51:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: mountall
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in mountall (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Also observed in Natty. Given that full fscks are rare (like, once every 6 months), it is not the first thing you think about when your machine seemingly hangs forever in the boot process.
I ended up booting the machine with a rescue CD and mounting the disks by hand in order to find out what the heck was going on. That was an hour wasted. I'd much rather have seen a progress bar or the little twirly thing: -/|\-/|\-...
This is *also* a problem in the regular desktop ubuntu.