Mounting ro while fsck on boot

[EricDHH]

12.04 amd64 Race Condition

Every time i get the fsck progress indicator on the bootsplash, everything is mounted ro. This results to /home, all later mounted devices like windows partitions and usb drives. I have to reboot to correct this behaviour.

Suggested idea: Upstart has to wait until fsck is ready and then go on. OR the fsck will b e placed at shutdown, there it can run without disturbance.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 72ffaca291c05635776d4a13f9e644e4
CheckboxSystem: 32980ee028b29311fef8e195a759b031
Date: Fri Jul 6 13:15:48 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de_DE.UTF8:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-31 (96 days ago)

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Hi Eric - thanks for reporting this issue. However, something seems amiss on your system since the system should wait until fsck finishes.

Please can you attach the file /var/log/boot.log from such a boot as it might give an indication as to what is going wrong. It sounds like either your disk is failing (such that FSCK is unable to repair the damage completely), or you have one more more jobs that are interfering with the normal boot process.