Bug#346148: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#346148: checkroot.sh: does not properly handle fsck exit states

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I just noticed that my laptop, at bootup, started an fsck for the root
> filesystem, claiming that it was a filesystem with errors. When it was
> about 20% done, it exited, and told me to rerun it manually. I expected
> a prompt for my root password and to be put in single-user mode, but
> this did not happen; instead, my system did a normal boot.

This means fsck returned error codes 2 or 3.  If fsck needs to be re-run
manually, it should have something else (bit 1 should not be set, bit 2
should be set, and I am not sure about bit 3. Other bits should be unset).

What is your root filesystem?

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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh