This has been fixed in Hardy.
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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Blinking cursor replaces splash screen when fsck runs at boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176727
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Running the command 'sudo touch /forcefsck' reproduces the bug for me.
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Blinking cursor replaces splash screen when fsck runs at boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176727
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To make fsck run at boot time, open a terminal and run:
sudo touch /forcefsck
Then reboot.
You may be interested in:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsck
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Blinking cursor replaces splash screen when fsck runs at boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176727
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The same thing happened today. With the same symptoms. If I look in the
log file checkroot in /var/log/fsck I can see it has checked my root
partition (sdb2) (presumably while the blinking cursor was on my screen
(~10 minutes)):
Log of fsck -C -a -t ext3 /dev/sdb2
Sun Jan 27 10:58:43 2008
fsck 1
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: usplash => sysvinit
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Blinking cursor replaces splash screen when fsck runs at boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176727
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