I'd much rather fix the bug for good. So first of all, if always freezes at the same percentage, that is a bug that has already been fixed (see Debian bug #411838, which was fixed in Debian version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-1 or later). It looks like at least some of the people who are reporting this bug are saying that it happens at a different percentage completed which changes from run to run of e2fsck. That sounds like a device driver problem, especially when people further report it's fine after the system boots, or if they are using a live CD (I assume this is a Ubuntu live CD which is the same version as your system, so it's the same version of e2fsprogs on the live CD as your system)?
I'll note that I'm not hearing this complaint from users of any other distribution, which again makes me suspicious that it's something Ubuntu specific.... like the Ubuntu kernel. OK, so let's take this from first principles. #1, can you create a compressed e2image of your disk (see the REPORTING BUGS section of the e2fsck man page). #2, can you re-enable fsck at boot, force an fsck, by using the command tune2fs -C 99 /dev/hdXXX, and rebooting, and confirm that it is still locking up for you. #3, if it is, can you place the compressed e2image file at a URL where I can download it. Optionally, you can unbzip the image file in a scratch filesystem where you have enough room, and try running e2fsck over that image file. If it doesn't hang when you try e2fsck'ing the e2image file, and yet it does hang at boot, then it's definitely either a hardware problem or a kernel problem, and we can redirect this bug report to the Ubuntu kernel developers. -- fsck freezes on laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
