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Bug#780261: fsck scan of crypto-root on EVERY startup



Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
Control: reassign -1 e2fsprogs
Control: forcemerge 767040 -1
Control: severity 767040 serious

On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 19:58 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Hallo,
> * Ben Hutchings [Wed, Mar 11 2015, 05:01:58PM]:
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 11:40 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > > Package: initramfs-tools
> > > Version: 0.119
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Just what the topic says. I have encrypted root and plymouth and the
> > > bios clock runs in local time. And on every boot, fsck scans the
> > > rootfs in forced mode which takes a while.
> > > 
> > > This started happening only after dist-upgrading today, and I also
> > > installed plymouth for other reasons.
> > 
> > From the NEWS file:
> > 
> >   * If the RTC (real time clock) is set to local time and the local time is
> >     ahead of UTC, e2fsck will print a warning during boot about the time
> >     changing backward (bug #767040).  You can disable this by putting the
> >     following lines in /etc/e2fsck.conf:
> >         [options]
> >         broken_system_clock=1
> > 
> > I don't know why you would see a forced fsck rather than only a warning.
> > But does that configuration change work for you?
> 
> Correct, I don't understand this either. I entered the debug shell
> (break=mount), configured the encrypted root, run 
> "e2fsck /dev/mapper/xroot" and there was no warning, it just returned.
> "date" displayed the correct BIOS date with "incorrect" timezone (UTC,
> not UTC+1).

This is expected.  The initramfs already contains that configuration.

> Setting the mentioned option in e2fsck.conf does help.

OK, so this is a variant on #767040.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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