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  1. Bug #125702
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 125702

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Richard Musil (richard-musil) wrote : Re: failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2

I concur to what jpolizo wrote. I spent the whole day playing with this setup (i.e. Gutsy on 1GB USB as per http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/09/28/usb-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-install/) and noticed following details when booting into persistent:

1) some settings are stored, some not (like new user). Even for Appearence->Fonts some font settings get stored (almost all sizes) and some not (AA setting).
2) mtab was consistently corrupted after boot
3) some files are created with access mode 0000 (i.e. .ICEauthority-c, or some .gconf files)
4) modes for those files with 0000 can sometimes be changed sometimes I got I/O error
5) when the system is shutting down, at certain moment it displays the message "Remove the disk and press ENTER". When removing USB at this point I observed immediate errors on block I/O (on console) and casper-rw got completely messed afterwards.
6) even after forementioned message there is some activity on flash (led blinks) before shutdown.

All these factors basically makes the system degrade so fast, it does not even survive few reboots without loosing some critical data.