It's fixed in Mint 10.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Andreas Jürgens
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> this Bug is nearly 7 month old and I can't understand, why it is not
> fixed for LM 9.
>
> Regards
> Andreas
>
> --
> fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707
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>
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: New
> Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “mountall” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
> Status in “plymouth” source package in Lucid: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> PROBLEM
>
> When a disk check is performed, the progress stalls somewhere around 70%
> and will then take a very long time finishing the remaining percent (10
> minutes or more).
>
> PATCH
>
> Patch for mountall has now been pushed as an update for Lucid, if you are
> still seeing this problem, make sure you have mountall 2.15 installed before
> commenting/reporting a new bug.
>
> [Earlier patch comments:]
> Tero Mononen has published a patch for Bug #553745 which applies to the
> issue described here as well (see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/76and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/77)
>
> I have created corresponding packages which are available through my PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/unstable
>
> !!!Do note that this is an unofficial, untested, preliminary patch!!!
> However testing and feedback is welcome, please especially report if there
> are ANY (new) problems seen when using the patched version.
>
> TEST CASE:
>
> (sudo aptitude install bootchart)
> sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo reboot
>
> POSSIBLE TEMPORARY WORKAROUNDS
>
> 1. Removing "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel boot line
>
> 2. When the progress has stalled, switch away from the splash screen using
> the left arrowkey (presumably any arrowkey works).
>
> * Both these approaches speeds up the boot process to ~1 minute instead.
>
> OBSERVATIONS
>
> The fsck message "(...) non-contiguous (...)" Which I assume indicates the
> end of the fsck, is printed in the Virtual Terminal ("outside" plymouth) at
> around 70% + ~10-20 seconds.
>
> Disk activity is null from this point on (presumed end of fsck above).
>
> Bootchart crashes if trying to catch the whole boot at once with plymouth
> (at least for my 1h boot).
>
> This problem seems to occur in both plymouthd and mountall,
> semi-simultaneously:
> If you are in the plymouth screen, plymouthd is the cpu-gobbler, if you
> switch away from it using the arrow keys, mountall instead takes over the
> cpu-eating.
>
> #####
>
> ORIGINAL REPORT
>
> Binary package hint: mountall
>
> On my system when fsck runs at boot plymouth % completion count goes up
> quickly (<10 seconds) up to about 80% and then slows down considerably: the
> complete fsck of my 125GB HD, 30% full takes more than 5 minutes.
>
> While this goes on the text VTs are all completely blank: just a blinking
> cursor.
>
> An fsck from a recovery disk completes in ~10 seconds so it doesn't look
> like "fsck just being slow".
>
> This slowdown was *not* happening on 2010-04-14 with the PPA described by
> this comment:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737/comments/25
>
> The fix in the PPA is now in the mainline lucid but somewhere in between
> then and today (2010-04-29) something introduced this slowdown.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: mountall 2.14
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Apr 29 15:38:56 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100317.1)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_IE:en_GB:en
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_IE.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: mountall
>
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