[Bug 540645] Re: no fsck messages shown in details mode (no splash on cmdline)

[Mark - Syminet]

Regarding this, I rebuilt a mountall package that fixed this bug and uploaded it to my PPA about two years ago.  

I added the "--fsck-console" option to mountall, and then added the
option to enable this at boot time by adding the line "FSCKCONSOLE=yes"
to /etc/defaults/rcS.  From the changelog:

   * Added "--fsck-console" parameter to use console progress bar.  To
     enable, add "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" to /etc/defaults/rcS. 

My PPA package is still sitting on Launchpad here:
https://launchpad.net/~mark-syminet/+archive/syminet/+packages

If this seems a good approach, I'm willing to spend the time to take a
look at this again but only if someone is willing to consider getting it
into the distribution, since I only want to use distribution packages on
servers for critical boot-things like this.

This really is a particularly nasty bug because servers can run for a
long time without a power cut, etc. - but then that fateful day arrives
and we are stuck without any idea if the remote machine is even hung,
while bosses and customers are screaming about downtime demanding ETA's.

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Title:
  no fsck messages shown in details mode (no splash on cmdline)

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  Tried booting in details mode (removed splash from cmdline) and didn't
  get any fsck messages, despite /forcefsck - need to investigate this
  as they should be visible

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