[Bug 988369] Re: Disk error when system time is in past

[Steve Langasek]

ogra, you're already familiar with this area due to the fixrtc work; do
you know if mountall should be able to distinguish this error condition
from others when checking the rootfs?

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Title:
  Disk error when system time is in past

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  
  The cause for an error

  "Errors while checking disk drive for /MyPartition"

  can also be an earlier system time! It took a long time to find this
  out: when booting the kernel with noplymouth and without "quiet
  splash", I found the reason for the "disk errors":

  "Der Zeitpunkt des letzten Schreibens von SuperBlock (Wed Apr 25
  13:27:46 2012, jetzt: Mon Apr 23 09:46:10 2012) liegt in der Zukunft."

  which is something like "superblock last write time is in the future".
  See Bug #268808 for a similar description.

  As the normal Ubuntu boot screen just shows a message "disk error",
  and all the fixing like fsck doesn't help, it would be much clearer to
  have a message like "system time before max file system time! (Check
  system time in BIOS!)".

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