Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-04-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:29:32 +0100 "Beck, Andre" wrote: > Hi, > > isn't that a bug in e2fsck anyway? There is accept_time_fudge which > defaults to true and should take care of this situation. Possibly; in any case it still logs a warning even when it 'accepts' the incorrect time. I don't know

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-31 Thread Janis Hamme
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 03:14:53 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > By the way, Lennart Poettering told me that other distributions have > done that, though I haven't checked whether it is done with a > configuration file or a patch to the code. > > > it wouldn't be better to just skip the fsck of / (and /u

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 31.03.2015 um 04:14 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 04:29 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:51:53 + Ben Hutchings >> I was wondering, if an alternative to disabling the superblock time >> check in e2fsprogs, Well, it dawned to me, that doing both is proba

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 04:29 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:51:53 + Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > Package: e2fsprogs > > Version: 1.42.12-1 > > Severity: important > > Tags: upstream > > > > We discussed this previously in person, but unfortunately the proposed

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Michael Biebl [2015-03-29 4:29 +0200]: > I was wondering, if an alternative to disabling the superblock time > check in e2fsprogs, it wouldn't be better to just skip the fsck of / > (and /usr, if separate). > For that, initramfs-tools could create a flag file for / and /usr in > /run and we'd upda

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Ben! On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:51:53 + Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.42.12-1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > We discussed this previously in person, but unfortunately the proposed > solution doesn't work. > > The plan for jessie (yes I know it's late) is

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-14 Thread Beck, Andre
Hi, isn't that a bug in e2fsck anyway? There is accept_time_fudge which defaults to true and should take care of this situation. Even when it wouldn't default to true, my e2fsck.conf already had its alias buggy_init_scripts set to 1. Nevertheless, I'm briefly seeing an fsck running now on every bo

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2015-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:51:53 + Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > You said that this check could be disabled in a configuration file, > e2fsck.conf, and we can create that in the initramfs. This works in > so far as it suppresses warnings while the initramfs code is running. > Unfortunately, every

Bug#767040: Superblock time check causes problems for fsck in initramfs

2014-10-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.12-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream We discussed this previously in person, but unfortunately the proposed solution doesn't work. The plan for jessie (yes I know it's late) is to mount and fsck the root and (if separate) /usr filesystems from initramfs code, b