Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #501801
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 501801

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 501801] Re: Infinite-loops in fsck when booting with damaged /

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 22:30 +0000, Björn Schließmann wrote:

> Bug is not fixed for me in mountall 2.13. Issue I had yesterday:
>
> - Resuming the system failed, so I had to reboot
> - Linux' pm_trace is active so system date is set to some remote future date
> - While rebooting (without "splash" in kernel command line), root is mounted; fsck finds unexpected inconsistency
> - System hangs. Pressing ESC repeats the last point. Booting not possible.
>
> Booting Linux with "single" in kernel command line leads to the exact
> same result. Pardon my expression, but this is most ridiculous. I had to
> make a bootable USB FD and fsck my root manually.
>
Then you are most likely experiencing a different problem than the
original reporter. Please file a new bug with "ubuntu-bug mountall",
and describe in detail what you see on the screen during the boot.

Scott
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