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
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