[Bug 868755] Re: Always starts ro (read-only)

[Stéphane Graber]

The switch to read/only by default was indeed done on purpose in Ubuntu
11.10 as we believe the default behaviour of the recovery mode should be
to not make anything worse, which is achieved by having / and any other
persistent filesystem read-only.

Friendly-recovery is designed to solely be started from the grub option,
starting it manually from an already booted system isn't a supported use
case.

In 12.04, the menu will be slightly updated to better reflect what's
available in read-only mode and what's available in read/write mode,
automatically switching to read/write when the user first selects one of
these options.

** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Always starts ro (read-only)

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Why does friendly-recovery assume I am running it at boot time in ro?
  I don't understand what prompted this change. In the rare occasion
  that systems need to be mounted ro, shouldn't that be done as a kernel
  boot parameter?

  Running /lib/friendly-recovery/recovery-menu from gnome-terminal, I
  still have to do remount. It doesn't detect that the root filesystem
  is already mounted.

  From what I understand ro is mounted so that fsck can check the disk
  without modifying it. AFAIK fsck should run automatically in ro if
  dirty filesystems were detected and issues are not correctable (or if
  it had passed a number of boots without a check, then preform a check)
  so why is this being done every time?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct  5 17:33:22 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110817)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-04 (0 days ago)

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