Comment 27 for bug 554079

This problem has hit me twice recently. The first time (iirc) I was able to ctrl-alt-del at the Plymouth screen, and upon reboot it briefly flashed the fsck message again but booted successfully. The second time was just this morning (with a fully up to date system), and I had to ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a TTY and log into a shell. A "ps -ef | grep fsck" indicated no instances of it hanging around, so it appears that fsck is not to blame. I then did a "sudo reboot" and once again it managed to boot successfully.