Comment 4 for bug 487744
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 487744] Re: Scheduled fsck during boot hangs at 90%, preventing boot sequence completing | #4 |
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 17:02 +0000, ais523 wrote:
> > I actually don't think you have an fsck at all, which would explain why
> > Escape isn't working
>
> This can't possibly be the case:
> - Escape works just fine before the fsck reaches 89%
>
Then stops working. Which is precisely my point.
> - fsck is showing a progress bar; if fsck isn't there, then how would
> the progress bar appear?
>
Actually fsck doesn't show the progress bar, something else is. If fsck
went away, and that something else hadn't noticed, the progress bar
would be still there ... and Escape wouldn't work.
> - "Filesystem checks are in progress (ESC to cancel):" strongly implies
> that something is trying to run fsck, and if it wasn't there I'd expect it
> to error out immediately
>
See above.
> - "which fsck" and "which e2fsck" return /sbin/fsck and /sbin/e2fsck, as
> expected
>
That just means they're installed. I meant that fsck stopped running at
90% (or got to 100% quicker than the progress bar noticed).
Scott
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