It's fixed in Mint 10. On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Andreas Jürgens <571...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:
> Hello, > > this Bug is nearly 7 month old and I can't understand, why it is not > fixed for LM 9. > > Regards > Andreas > > -- > fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug (606588). > > Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: New > Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in “mountall” source package in Lucid: Fix Released > Status in “plymouth” source package in Lucid: Triaged > > Bug description: > PROBLEM > > When a disk check is performed, the progress stalls somewhere around 70% > and will then take a very long time finishing the remaining percent (10 > minutes or more). > > PATCH > > Patch for mountall has now been pushed as an update for Lucid, if you are > still seeing this problem, make sure you have mountall 2.15 installed before > commenting/reporting a new bug. > > [Earlier patch comments:] > Tero Mononen has published a patch for Bug #553745 which applies to the > issue described here as well (see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/76and > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/77) > > I have created corresponding packages which are available through my PPA: > https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/unstable > > !!!Do note that this is an unofficial, untested, preliminary patch!!! > However testing and feedback is welcome, please especially report if there > are ANY (new) problems seen when using the patched version. > > TEST CASE: > > (sudo aptitude install bootchart) > sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo reboot > > POSSIBLE TEMPORARY WORKAROUNDS > > 1. Removing "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel boot line > > 2. When the progress has stalled, switch away from the splash screen using > the left arrowkey (presumably any arrowkey works). > > * Both these approaches speeds up the boot process to ~1 minute instead. > > OBSERVATIONS > > The fsck message "(...) non-contiguous (...)" Which I assume indicates the > end of the fsck, is printed in the Virtual Terminal ("outside" plymouth) at > around 70% + ~10-20 seconds. > > Disk activity is null from this point on (presumed end of fsck above). > > Bootchart crashes if trying to catch the whole boot at once with plymouth > (at least for my 1h boot). > > This problem seems to occur in both plymouthd and mountall, > semi-simultaneously: > If you are in the plymouth screen, plymouthd is the cpu-gobbler, if you > switch away from it using the arrow keys, mountall instead takes over the > cpu-eating. > > ##### > > ORIGINAL REPORT > > Binary package hint: mountall > > On my system when fsck runs at boot plymouth % completion count goes up > quickly (<10 seconds) up to about 80% and then slows down considerably: the > complete fsck of my 125GB HD, 30% full takes more than 5 minutes. > > While this goes on the text VTs are all completely blank: just a blinking > cursor. > > An fsck from a recovery disk completes in ~10 seconds so it doesn't look > like "fsck just being slow". > > This slowdown was *not* happening on 2010-04-14 with the PPA described by > this comment: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737/comments/25 > > The fix in the PPA is now in the mainline lucid but somewhere in between > then and today (2010-04-29) something introduced this slowdown. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 > Package: mountall 2.14 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 > Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 > NonfreeKernelModules: wl > Architecture: i386 > Date: Thu Apr 29 15:38:56 2010 > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100317.1) > ProcEnviron: > LANGUAGE=en_IE:en_GB:en > PATH=(custom, user) > LANG=en_IE.utf8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: mountall > > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/571707/+subscribe > -- fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
