fsck infinite loop at boot time / complains about -a and -p options
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mountall (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
This seems similar to bug #501801, but the error message is not quite the same.
The graphical boot screen was reporting that it was fixing the file system. Every time the interface got to 100%, it would seemingly restart at 1%. I hit the esc key, bring up the console, and an error message from fsck was there, repeating and repeating.
The message said something like: "filesystem needs repair, please re-run without the -a or -p options."
I booted with the install disc, and ran fsck -y manually, which repaired the file system (no noticeable data loss). This was on an ext4 filesytem.
The graphical boot screen should detect fsck failing like this, and report it to the user for manual intervention or use the -y option if that makes sense (not 100% sure of the repercussions of that).
(System details coming, reporting from a different computer, at the moment.)
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Updated the beta fully about 24 hours ago.