[Bug 1880250] Re: Ctrl-C message displayed without any actual disk check

[Didier Roche]

This patch was worked with upstream and even merged in systemd master.
Howwever, after a month, Lennart decided to revert it because he strongly thinks that no feedback on fsck is needed because "everyone have fast SSD disks". (frustrating experience after working for a good 3 months getting upstream agreeing on the design and doing review first). Martin Pitt tried to push it again but there was no way to discuss apparently.

We decided that it wasn’t acceptable 5 years ago, especially for desktop
and server users, to sit in front on a black screen for minutes in case
of spinning disks because a fsck is happening without any feedback that
things are progressing (with the risk of the user forcibly shutting down
his machine, thinking the boot is stuck). Has anything changed in that
regard?

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Title:
  Ctrl-C message displayed without any actual disk check

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in plymouth source package in Focal:
  Confirmed
Status in systemd source package in Focal:
  Confirmed
Status in plymouth source package in Groovy:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Groovy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It seems the transition to bgrt lost something with Ubuntu's disk
  check details. The only thing I see on my screen during a long disk
  check is the "press Ctrl-C to stop all in progress disk checks" with
  no progress.

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