Public bug reported: Binary package hint: plymouth
When fsck happens on a large disk, it looks like the machine is frozen. Well, not quite -- the little dots on the screen tell you it's trying to do something, but when they keep going for 15 minutes, one begins to believe that something serious has gone wrong. (After all, the normal boot time is more like 15 seconds...) This has cause me to reboot the darned box several times and eventually use a live CD so that I could mount the disks by hand, one at a time. If a naive user buys a terabyte disk and fills it with videos, his first fsck (which happens about 6 months after installation) could cause him to reinstall the entire O/S. The *really* bad use case is when you use a Ubuntu laptop for a presentation at a conference. You're standing in front of 300 people, you turn your laptop on, and it starts booting, and you wait, and wait, and three helpful people from the audience come up to try to fix it. It gets rebooted 4 times. Meanwhile, you're trying to give your presentation verbally, without the computer, while the audience is distracted by all the computer repair attempts. It is a career- wrecking disaster, and all the while it is saying "Ubuntu" on the screen... Day after tomorrow, I'm off to give a talk, using my Ubuntu laptop, running Natty. I'll fsck the disks today... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu23 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon May 2 08:15:54 2011 DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/xubuntu-logo.plymouth InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MachineType: Gateway GT5676 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=339a3173-842e-4a3b-aa5e-988e34ba81c6 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: plymouth TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-text/xubuntu-text.plymouth UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (1 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/18/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 7B3G1P04 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: Not Available dmi.board.vendor: Gateway dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr7B3G1P04:bd02/18/2008:svnGateway:pnGT5676:pvr7B3G1P04:rvnGateway:rnNotAvailable:rvrNotAvailable:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr1.0: dmi.product.name: GT5676 dmi.product.version: 7B3G1P04 dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway ** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775392 Title: fsck happens silently - this looks like the machine is frozen. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs