on 1st boot fsck exits with error 4

[Manoj Iyer]

After installing Kamic Alpha5, on reboot, fsck fails with exit 4. I am installing on a QEMU HDD. So attaching screen shots of the failure.

[Theodore Ts'o (tytso)]

What time zone are you in? And are you configuring your hardware/CMOS clock to tick in localtime instead of GMT?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

almost certainly a dup, we can backtrack if it isn't

[Theodore Ts'o (tytso)]

I'm not convinced it's a dup, since this is right after an install. If the installer only installs the root filesystem after it has determined the correct timezone and set the time correctly, then there wouldn't be a problem. There's a strong possibility that the installer may not be setting the time correctly before it first mounts the file system.

I'd strongly recommend testing the installer scenario with the kernel patch; if it fixes the problem, fine, but there's a strong probability it won't. The kernel patch deal with the case where we are mounting the root filesystem read/only and there is a need to do a journal replay. This is not what would be happening in a installer situation, since the installer is mounting the file system read/write, and usually of a freshly created file system.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 12:51 +0000, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 427822 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427822
>
> I'm not convinced it's a dup, since this is right after an install. If
> the installer only installs the root filesystem after it has determined
> the correct timezone and set the time correctly, then there wouldn't be
> a problem. There's a strong possibility that the installer may not be
> setting the time correctly before it first mounts the file system.
>
I may have got the bug number wrong ;)

We had an installer bug that it tried to set the hardware clock and got
it wrong, storing localtime rather than UTC. That's been fixed.

(It affected alpha5 which is what manjo says he installed from)

Scott
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