Boot screen displays a disk check message even when no disk is being checked

[Chandru]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Boot screen displays the following message everytime the system is started up even if no disk needs to be checked.

"Your drives are beign checked for errors, this may take some time. Press C to cancel all checks currently in progress."

This issue has been mentioned by this comment on another bug report.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737/comments/47

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 16 11:48:02 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Presario CQ62 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=0ace9a7e-90c3-4c8f-a7f7-7df57bbd3fb7 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 02/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.07
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1425
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 54.13
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.07:bd02/10/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnPresarioCQ62NotebookPC:pvr04A0100000002810000000000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1425:rvr54.13:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Presario CQ62 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 04A0100000002810000000000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Ralemy (reza.alemy)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu Desktop 64 Bit Lucid Beta 2.
Problem started with update to kernel 2.6.32-21-generic, plymouth started a disk check froze on 71%. after restart, the splash screen announces disks to be checked but doesn't actually check them

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

Sorry, slipped on the status there.

[abhishektiwari (abhishektiwari)]

I have same problem which came after updating the Lucid 64B after fresh install. I am not sure what is going wrong.

[Ralemy (reza.alemy)]

I can confirm that the script in Plymouth is just printing a message it receives during boot, so the problem should be mountall send the message where fsck is not necessary

[jabba (diaz)]

I can confirm that Lucid 10.04 x86_64 is hanging at the 'ubuntu' screen with the blinking dots. If I don't touch anything, the hdd light goes dead and does not proceed. I am still able to press 'C' to skip, or alt+ctrl+F1 to tty1 like normal, but a little bothersome.

[jabba (diaz)]

^^ I forgot to mention that I am current on all plymouth and mountall updates per Scott's ppa and repository.

[abhishektiwari (abhishektiwari)]

I can confirm that the problem goes away after uninstalling Nvidia proprietary drivers. It works like charm without the proprietary drivers and now I am using xserver-xorg-driver-nouveau. I suspect the problem is very much related to ugly Plymouth due to proprietary Nvidia Drivers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mountall - 2.13

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mountall (2.13) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Scott James Remnant ]
  * Once a mountpoint has been skipped, don't try and mount it again
    (unless the udev device actually shows up). LP: #553290.
  * Skipping a filesystem means we should also skip anything that depends
    on that (ie. skip /usr/local when skipping /usr).
  * Don't skip filesystems due to timeout when Plymouth not available.

  * Don't run mount, swapon or fsck while there's an uncleared error on
    the filesystem. LP: #501801.

  * Don't display the filesystem check message when an fsck completes
    without needing to check the filesystem. LP: #564434.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:15:58 -0700