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Bug#764572: initramfs-tools: fails to finish booting with dirty filesystem(s)



Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.17-1~exp1
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:42:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
[...]
> Hi, I still have the issue that with initramfstools later than 0.116 (ie 
> 0.117 and 0.118) that with the disks corrupted, the boot process would hang.
> 
> With initramfs-tools 0.116, the boot process proceeded normally and 
> successfully run fsck on the filesystems to be mounted (the disk above 
> with a HPA was not listed in /etc/fstab to have any filesystems mounted).
> 
> I'm not sure how to reproduce this bug without resorting to somehow 
> deliberately corrupting a filesystem and/or disk partition table.

I think this must be a kernel or hardware bug that is triggered by
slightly different behaviour in initramfs-tools.

Have you seen this issue recur with more recent kernel versions?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.

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