Re: Reiserfs : stuck at boot-time fsck
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:51:52PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 12:26, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> > At boot time, the system gets stuck with the following messages :
> >
> > [LILO and other usual kernel boot messages]
> > Checking all file systems...
> > fsck 1.33-WIP (30-Mar-2003)
>
> Problem solved itself : while I was busy on a nearby workstation I saw
> GDM show up on the screen... The system had booted without my
> intervention, its just that it needed more than two hours to do so.
>
> So the conclusion is that if you see your machine frozen at boot time
> with the above message it just means that it is busy fscking itself. I
> guess that some kind of animation would have been useful to show the
> user that the system is not dead.
Hm, I thought that fsck normally showed a spinny progress bar. It
certainly does for me.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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