[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-13 Thread Glenn Brumfield
@Scott - Today's updates cured my boot problem (the last mount time in future), but I wanted to thank you while I was thinking of it. I also miss the nice "Thank You!" button; I firmly believe the old adage that one heart-felt "Well Done!" wipes out a hundred "Aw s*%#" 's." Thank You! -- diffic

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
Since we haven't heard off the original reporter in a little while, and his issue was fixed separately (the last mount time in future thing), and other comments have been positive, I'm going to mark this as fixed. You do get a shell in case of bad fsck, but now exiting that shell retries everythin

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-13 Thread Ernst Zlo
Scott, I'm totally impressed, with the today's update the problem is solved. As there was an upgrade to kernel (2.6.31-13.45) there would have been a Superblock issue. - and was not. And even my VBd is mounted correctly. Congratulations and thank you verry much. I still miss a VWD button (V

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-12 Thread Ernst Zlo
Next round I went back to a version of Karmic where I could boot with the VBd. I added your repository and manually made a sudo apt-get install mountall I made a ez_mt_before.log I booted (hang) I removed the VBd from fstab via life CD I booted again. (no VBd mounted) I did NOT make a mout -

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-10 Thread Ernst Zlo
Am Samstag, den 10.10.2009, 10:41 + schrieb Scott James Remnant: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:28 +, Ernst Zlo wrote: > > > With or without your ~beta5: kernel 2.6.31-12 will hang with a VBd in > > the /etc/fstab. > > > > Is the mountall.log of any interest for you, when the VBd is NOT moun

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:28 +, Ernst Zlo wrote: > With or without your ~beta5: kernel 2.6.31-12 will hang with a VBd in > the /etc/fstab. > > Is the mountall.log of any interest for you, when the VBd is NOT mounted > (which I am forced now, because otherwise my kernel won't work)? > > And af

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Ernst Zlo
After a walk with my dog my brain is either complete damaged or working better: IMHO Ubuntu is trying now to start a VBd wich only can work if the VirtualBox Guestadditions are allready working, which are working AFTER all harddisks are mounted. And you can't start the VirtualBox Guestadditions w

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Ernst Zlo
Sorry, Scott. With or without your ~beta5: kernel 2.6.31-12 will hang with a VBd in the /etc/fstab. Is the mountall.log of any interest for you, when the VBd is NOT mounted (which I am forced now, because otherwise my kernel won't work)? And afterwards I only can supply you with a mountall.log w

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:16 +, Ernst Zlo wrote: > And by typing this essay of #...@!* bugs it becomes clear to me: please > give me ~beta6 because without ~beta5 nothing goes, with ~beta5 nothing > goes either. > You haven't supplied your debug.log Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Ernst Zlo
I went back to the point before upgrading to 2.6.31.13 I installed your repository I did sudo apt-get -f install sudo apt-get --fix-missing install sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove I checked if the VirtualBox drive is in /

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Martin
> > 1) A "filesystem last mounted in future" error is still treated as > > serious enough to interrupt the boot process and require > interaction > > via mountall-shell. My view is that this is not appopriate because > > this may well happen when Windows fiddles with the clock on a > > dual

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Ernst Zlo
In the meantime I've upgraded to the new linux 2.6.31.13 And now I have the hanging without your repository as described above: When trying to reboot it hangs with the white Ubuntu logo and no errormessage till the moment when (as I am sure now because it fades away) the scrensaver switches of the

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 14:02 +, Ernst Zlo wrote: > VirtualBox shared folder is to blame > (which I mount in my /etc/fstab with the line > extras /media/xtra vboxsf uid=1000,gid=1000,rw 0 0 > stops the photon torpedos ;-) > > When I remove the line everything's smooth and perfect. > I'd alrea

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 13:45 +, Dave Martin wrote: > However, I still have a couple of issues: > > 1) A "filesystem last mounted in future" error is still treated as > serious enough to interrupt the boot process and require interaction via > mountall-shell. My view is that this is not appopr

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Ernst Zlo
Hello Scott, I'm one of the 5%. VirtualBox shared folder is to blame (which I mount in my /etc/fstab with the line extras /media/xtra vboxsf uid=1000,gid=1000,rw 0 0 stops the photon torpedos ;-) When I remove the line everything's smooth and perfect. I've included a tar.gz where you see: mo

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Martin
Hi... rebooted again on armel: Now, boot does resume after the mountall-shell exits *if* the shell exits with status zero. However, I still have a couple of issues: 1) A "filesystem last mounted in future" error is still treated as serious enough to interrupt the boot process and require interac

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Martin
Sure, this is a definite step forward; some teething problems are inevitable. Output from mountall (~boot4) --debug before reboot on armel attached. Note that mountall doesn't appear to terminate in this case... is that the expected behaviour? I'll post further results after I reboot. ** Attach

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
Sorry about the issues with the previous PPA versions, as usual things worked just fine when I tested it in the various rigs I have here - of course it flatly failed when installed on normal systems because I hadn't actually tested that ;) I've uploaded a new ~boot4 version, this one feels much be

RE: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:14 +, Dave Martin wrote: > > > By default, mountall throws a lot of "Read-only filesystem" errors > > > while trying to clean /tmp, and drops to a root shell. > > > > > > Alternatively, if I remount the root filesystem read-write before > > > running init, init (or

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Dave Martin
Hi there... with ~boot3, I still seem to get the "read-only filesystem" errors, and I still get dropped to a root shell. I run mountall --debug towards the end of the log, in case that helps. ** Attachment added: "karmic-mountall.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33304112/karmic-mountall.lo

RE: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Dave Martin
> > ** Attachment added: "mountall.log" > >http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33292692/mountall.log > > > This log is not from the PPA, I'd prefer to see the log from the PPA. Apologies... looks like I misunderstood your instructions there... [...] > > By default, mountall throws a lot of "Read-

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:53 +, Dave Martin wrote: > By default, mountall throws a lot of "Read-only filesystem" errors while > trying to clean /tmp, and drops to a root shell. > > Alternatively, if I remount the root filesystem read-write before > running init, init (or possibly mountall) app

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:24 +, Dave Martin wrote: > Before installing your update, running sudo mountall --debug on a booted > system (this is mountall version 0.1.8) produces the attached output and > appears to deadlock. The mountall process does not terminate. > > ** Attachment added: "mo

Re: [Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:17 +, Ernst Zlo wrote: > I've installed your update: > VirtualBox now hangs with the mounting of the shared folder. forever. > Thanks. I've fixed this issue, new upload to the PPA is pending. Again, I would appreciate testing. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubu

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Dave Martin
After installing the updated mountall package on armel, I can't boot at all... By default, mountall throws a lot of "Read-only filesystem" errors while trying to clean /tmp, and drops to a root shell. Alternatively, if I remount the root filesystem read-write before running init, init (or possibl

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Ernst Zlo
Nr 2 ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto-2.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33293011/Bildschirmfoto-2.png -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Ernst Zlo
Scott I've removed the line sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 extras /media/xtra After that the boot resulted in this output (trying 3 rounds with no better result) ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto-1.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33293004/Bildschirmfoto-1.png -- difficult t

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Ernst Zlo
No 3 this is the point of no return only STRG+ALT+DEL helps out and leads back to here. ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto-3.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33293088/Bildschirmfoto-3.png -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received t

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Dave Martin
Before installing your update, running sudo mountall --debug on a booted system (this is mountall version 0.1.8) produces the attached output and appears to deadlock. The mountall process does not terminate. ** Attachment added: "mountall.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33292692/mountall.lo

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Ernst Zlo
Scott I've installed your update: VirtualBox now hangs with the mounting of the shared folder. forever. hehehe I've to reinstall as I suppose (because I was silly enough to forget to make a snapshot. and yes this IS my fault ) IMHO :^Þ ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto2.png" http://lau

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-08 Thread Rocko
Is there a recommended way to readily reproduce the problem? I'm happy to test the new package but I haven't seen the problem in a while. -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've uploaded a new mountall package to the ubuntu-boot PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-boot/+archive/ppa I would appreciate it if you could install this and try it out. *BEFORE* you reboot though, could you run "sudo mountall --debug > mountall.log 2>&1" and attach that to this bug - then aft

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-06 Thread Anders Kaseorg
For me, when fsck requests manual intervention and drops you to a shell, usplash now stays open so that all you see is an Ubuntu logo on a black screen. I had to guess what the problem is, then switch virtual consoles a few times to find the shell. -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
This has nothing to do with the "GNU R package for bootstrapping functions from Davison and Hinkley" ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: boot (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- difficult to recover from filesystem erro

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-05 Thread David Hardstone
It is kind of another bug but I think it's all being tracked here. -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-05 Thread FriedChicken
I wre affected by this bug, too. I manually started fsck which worked without problems. But on trying to continue booting by pressing CTRL+D (as the error message says) mountall block the furter boot process: Filesystem check failed. A Maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-04 Thread Glenn Brumfield
When I installed Karmic beta, I selected "Log-in and encrypt HDD". Now the boot sequence complains about file system time in the future, demands a manual fsck, bypasses the command prompt, then hangs attempting to access the encrypted HDD. Keyboard inputs have no effect. I've attached a screenshot

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-03 Thread Boblemur
also, heres a log of times etc from me booting my system and looking at the clocks more closely. thank god for the boot time speedups thats all i have to say :D so far what i think the problem is, ubuntu is reading the time wrong and then "correcting" the hardware clock when it successfully boots,

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-03 Thread Boblemur
here is the data iv gathered: :~# date ( wrong, in the root shell that i was given after the system failed to boot) Sat Oct 3 22:50:39 EST 2009 real time: @desktop:~$ date (correct, on my other computer) Sat Oct 3 23:53:58 EST 2009 bios reports: System time: 23:54:50 (correct, bios on the co

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-03 Thread Mtt.Castelli
So, the packet we should not update is 'upstart'? -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 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

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-03 Thread Plippo
One workaround I found was using the magic SysRq keys. With SysRq+R SysRq+E I got to a root shell from where I could run fsck and reboot. -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 432237] Re: difficult to recover from filesystem errors

2009-10-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - system fails to boot if root partition has errors + difficult to recover from filesystem errors -- difficult to recover from filesystem errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri