[Bug 765735] Re: mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 01:03:36PM -0000, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> I wouldn't know, since plymouth and all those graphical gadgets did
> nothing but create a world of hurt for me, I gave up on it and always take
> out all graphical booting nonsense immediately after an installation on
> any of the zoo of Debian and Ubuntu servers and clients that I maintain.

"Taking out the graphical booting nonsense" is precisely the reason you are
affected by this bug.

> One of the reasons beeing that booting with more then one encrypted device
> didn't work.

There are no open bug reports about such an issue.

> I want to know what is happening (or failing) behind the curtains during
> the boot process. Otherwise I could instead use OS X or Windows.....

You always have access to this information by pressing 'Esc' to toggle the
details plugin.

> A config file is very acceptable for me. Those who don't want it can
> switch it off. Those who don't want to stay blind and uninformed will
> switch it on.

> @Steve: Don't you agree?

No, I 100% disagree.  This bug report is relevant because the server
install, by request of the server team, uses the plymouth details plugin by
default instead of a splash screen.  *Desktop* users who have gone out of
their way to modify the boot experience have made their own bed, and
accomodating such deviations from the defaults is not a priority.

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Title:
  mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  mountall should cause fsck to show progress information (-C 0).

  Especially on large FS that take very long to fsck (sometimes many hours) it is very important 
  to know that the fsck isn't actually hanging and still working.
  It is not possible to log in via console or ssh to check the status even for filesystems that are not boot- essential.

  Plymouth splash screen is disabled as this machine is a server.

  This behaviour has caused trouble several times already as the system
  was believed to be hanging and unresponsive and got rebooted while the
  fsck was still running.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: mountall 2.25ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 19 11:51:06 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  SourcePackage: mountall
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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