On 09.10.2012 20:33, Mark - Syminet wrote: > Regarding this, I rebuilt a mountall package that fixed this bug and uploaded > it to my PPA about two years ago. > > I added the "--fsck-console" option to mountall, and then added the > option to enable this at boot time by adding the line "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" > to /etc/defaults/rcS. From the changelog: > > * Added "--fsck-console" parameter to use console progress bar. To > enable, add "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" to /etc/defaults/rcS. > > My PPA package is still sitting on Launchpad here: > https://launchpad.net/~mark-syminet/+archive/syminet/+packages > > If this seems a good approach, I'm willing to spend the time to take a > look at this again but only if someone is willing to consider getting it > into the distribution, since I only want to use distribution packages on > servers for critical boot-things like this. > > This really is a particularly nasty bug because servers can run for a > long time without a power cut, etc. - but then that fateful day arrives > and we are stuck without any idea if the remote machine is even hung, > while bosses and customers are screaming about downtime demanding ETA's. >
Could you perhaps update your package to version 2.41? @Steve: Would you then consider picking up the change developped by Mark? Cheers Mike -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/765735 Title: mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/765735/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs