Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #571707
  2. Comment #93

Comment 93 for bug 571707

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 571707] Re: fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU

Michael,

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 02:34:30PM -0000, Michael Hampson wrote:
> Further to the immediately preceding post, as an experiment, I forced
> fsck on my one-year-old Acer Aspire One Atom-based Netbook with fresh
> 10.04 install. It has *exactly* the same bug: the check slows to snail's
> pace, and C doesn't cancel. You could hardly find two more diverse
> machines with the same error. This really should be being taken *very*
> seriously. 9.04 and 9.10 were both brilliant on the netbook.

This *is* being taken seriously, a candidate fix has already been pushed to
the lucid-proposed archive. You are welcome to help with testing this fix
following the directions in comment #86. Otherwise, you can wait for the
fix to be available in lucid-updates, which will happen in a few days once
we are confident that no regressions have been introduced with this change.

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