no visible indication that a long-running fsck is taking place in background
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sysvinit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
If a filesystem check is forced on bootup, usplash will drop out of graphical mode and drop to a text mode. This is not very friendly for first time users.
Usplash should instead display a visible indication that a Disk Check is being performed, and use the progress information extracted from fsck itself. Currently this information is provided on a filehandle from the low-level fsck process, but the high-level fsck process does not pass status information through (beyond displaying a text status-bar), or send the status to usplash.
The front-end fsck should be modified so that the status information is passed to a 'usplash_write' command and the currently active progress bar be hijacked or borrowed.
This is intentional, because usplash cannot display progress for fsck. If it continued to display, there would be no indication of activity and the boot process would appear to be stalled.