On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 19:44 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:49:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Roger, please can you look at this? > > > > Ben. > > > > On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 11:41 +0200, Robert Luberda wrote: > > > Package: initramfs-tools > > > Version: 0.117 > > > Severity: critical > > > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > After /usr is being mounted from initramfs, system is no longer > > > bootable, because checkfs.sh script fails with: > > > > > > [....] Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 > > > /home2: clean, 166826/610800 files, 2350575/2441880 blocks > > > /home: clean, 120720/1831424 files, 3611320/3662820 blocks > > > /dev/sda5 is mounted. > > > e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. > > > > > > > > > fsck exited with status code 8 > > > [....] File system check failed. A log is being saved in > > > /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable. Please repair the > > > f[FAILystem manually. ... failed! > > > > > > The contents of /var/log/fsck/checkfs is: > > > > > > Log of fsck -C -R -A -a > > Has there been an update to util-linux to make the above -R option > skip checking /usr in addition to the rootfs? That was a > prerequisite for mounting /usr in the initramfs. Aaaaaaaaargh. No. And that doesn't fix the problem because we have to support partial upgrades. Where is the bug report on util-linux? > Looking at the mount options, it occurs to me that maybe we should > use -M in place of -R when we know we have run fsck in the > initramfs. Then it will skip /usr as a matter of course, but it > would also skip fsck of the rootfs so won't be appropriate when > not using an initramfs. > > You could if you wanted try using -M in checkfs as a workaround if > the above is the case. Or maybe check util-linux is up-to-date in > case it just needs upgrading. Maybe you should tell this to the bug submitter... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
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