Ubuntu
sysvinit package

No visible output during boot (particularly during extended fsck)

Bug #60602 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

There is no sign on boot that a fsck might be taking place.

There is no way to access normal boot messages, such as pressing 'Alt-F1'.

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Sven Bachmann (basv) wrote :

Yes, I can confirm this. I could only suggest what it was by watching the harddrive led.

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

I'll add a "me too" while switching this to confirmed.

Changed in usplash:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in usplash:
assignee: nobody → keybuk
importance: Untriaged → Medium
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

There does not appear to be any way to do this with usplash ...

Changed in usplash:
assignee: keybuk → nobody
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Scott - what do you mean? The TEXT URGENT command will continue to output text even if usplash isn't in verbose mode. I don't really see how this is a usplash issue - it's something that needs fixing in the init scripts.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

That would mean that text was always displayed on every boot, which looks freakingly ugly with the current usplash theme

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Ok. As discussed on IRC, let's just make sure that it times out during the fsck and then relaunch usplash if it exited.

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