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  1. Bug #540645
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 540645

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Mark - Syminet (mark-syminet) wrote :

Regarding this, I rebuilt a mountall package that fixed this bug and uploaded it to my PPA about two years ago.

I added the "--fsck-console" option to mountall, and then added the option to enable this at boot time by adding the line "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" to /etc/defaults/rcS. From the changelog:

   * Added "--fsck-console" parameter to use console progress bar. To
     enable, add "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" to /etc/defaults/rcS.

My PPA package is still sitting on Launchpad here: https://launchpad.net/~mark-syminet/+archive/syminet/+packages

If this seems a good approach, I'm willing to spend the time to take a look at this again but only if someone is willing to consider getting it into the distribution, since I only want to use distribution packages on servers for critical boot-things like this.

This really is a particularly nasty bug because servers can run for a long time without a power cut, etc. - but then that fateful day arrives and we are stuck without any idea if the remote machine is even hung, while bosses and customers are screaming about downtime demanding ETA's.