This is really an annoyance. It almost "semi-bricked" my eee, as those live-cd tricks ain't much help if you're away from home and there's no livecd, cd-drive or even another computer to google for help.
Alas, a workaround to bypass that stupid prompt is to press alt-sysrq-e to tErminate it. Saved my day. IMHO, such of prompts don't really belong to modern computing, even if they have a long history. Band aid would be allow anyone sudoer to log in (much better than current!), even better solution would be to just run the fsck and proceed, if at all possible. That's what's gonna happen anyways, as the prompt suggests. Really advanced users may choose to disable that somehow, if required. (what's the point of the prompt anyway, if it's that easy to bypass? and why is root passwd asked, even when the password isn't even set? how come journaled ext3 didn't prevent this from happening?) -- After fsck failure, maintenance shell asks for root password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372430 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.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
