[Bug 575469] Re: [UIFe] [FFe] recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than read-only

[Stéphane Graber]

Well, the patches above essentially split single user and recovery as it
was the easiest way of making the "resume" option of friendly-recovery
work properly.

So if we think the changes I proposed are reasonable we'll get both a
proper recovery mode and some kind of single user mode for Oneiric. With
single user mode here meaning, the boot sequence ends with a root shell.
I don't think it strictly matches the regular definition of single user
mode (as IIRC you're not supposed to start networking or services in
single user mode but upstart does it anyway).

For P, we could then spend a bit of time trying to improve upstart's
behaviour in single mode and make the distinction between recovery and
single clearer to the user (didn't want to change strings in grub for
Oneiric).

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Title:
  [UIFe] [FFe] recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than
  read-only

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “newt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “friendly-recovery” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed
Status in “newt” source package in Oneiric:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: friendly-recovery

  In recovery mode, filesystems should probably be mounted read-only,
  since pending any problems they can safely be remounted read-write,
  while the reverse is not necessarily true.  This means that operations
  such as fsck, badblocks, zerofree, etc. are not possible without
  having to use a boot CD, and ensuring that any additional binaries are
  compatible.  One should assume that booting into recovery mode is
  either deliberate or has come about because of a problem.

  f-r 0.2.10 on lucid/2.6.32-21-generic

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