[Bug 1186331] Re: [PATCH] e2fsck hangs up boot process because "Device or resource busy while checking ext3 journal for foobar"

[Ben Romer]

I have the same problem but the opposite disk arrangement (my root is on
the spinning disk with ext4 journal data on SSD). I was able to work
around the boot issue by turning off the automatic fsck in my /etc/fstab
file, but obviously that is not an acceptable long-term solution.

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Title:
  [PATCH] e2fsck hangs up boot process because "Device or resource busy
  while checking ext3 journal for foobar"

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I installed Kubuntu 13.04 x64 on a new SSD, but pointed its ext4
  journal to another partition on a spinning disk (same block size, of
  course).

  At every boot, e2fsck prompts me to check / for errors but it dies
  because:

  fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while checking ext3 journal for
  foobar

   foobar: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********

  [Please, also note: If I press I to ignore and continue the boot
  process, it complains about /tmp not being ready yet (I used bind in
  fstab because it's on another partition). So I press S to skip the
  mount and access lightdm which can't login yet because /tmp is
  unmounted (it would just restart itself). Accessing the tty with
  CTRL+ALT+F1 works and I can "sudo mountall" to correctly mount /tmp,
  then login and use the system as usual.]

  Using a LiveCD to fsck the / partition shows that the filesystem is
  clean.

  I built e2fsck from source and applied this patch
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg38096.html before compiling
  and it solved the problem.

  Now the boot-up process is smooth and it also carried away the /tmp
  not ready issue.

  Please, apply this patch to e2fsprogs.

  If you need more info, please just tell me.

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