/forcefsck file doesn't get removed

[Marc Deslauriers]

Binary package hint: mountall

When forcing a fsck, the /forcefsck file never gets removed.

This may be related to the fact that I have an nfs mount in my fstab which is not available at the moment. If so, remote mounts that fail should not cause the post-stop script to get ignored.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 3 10:37:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mountall 2.4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SourcePackage: mountall
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64

[323232 (323232)]

possible duplicate of 554079 / 538810

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

The /forcefsck file remains as long as there are filesystems to be mounted (since they may need to be checked), since your NFS filesystem hasn't been mounted yet, the file remains.

As soon as you mount that filesystem, mountall will remove the /forcefsck file

(if all else fails, this happens on shutdown)

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

Natty is failing to remove /forcefsck even after two reboots.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Scott's explanation from 2010 was correct. The file gets removed after mountall exits, which it does only after it mounts all auto filesystems listed in /etc/fstab or after something kills the mountall process. If you're seeing /forcefsck still present after multiple reboots, you probably have a buggy /etc/fstab.