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

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:37:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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?

ext3

-- 
.../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/
../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/
-.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ /
../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../
---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/