[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#625820: Bug#625820: Please let the user know when fsck'ing while booting -> machine looks dead

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Fri, 06 May 2011, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>> Synopsis:
>> =========
>> when the machine does an fsck while booting, there's no way to know.
>> The user should be informed of the fact otherwise she has no way to
>> know whether the machine is dead or not.
>
> Hmm?  It is, fsck outputs everything to all active consoles.
>
>> Lately, while rebooting, my machine just stayed black. Nothing was
>> happening except for the disk drive LED being on.
>
> Didn't it show the BIOS screen?

Yes, it did, also grub came up and went on to load the kernel, the screen 
switched to black and that was it.

> I have no idea of what's happening to your box, but it is something more
> basic and insiduous than a quiet fsck.  We do not DO quiet fsck in the first
> place, AFAIK.

My boot here goes like this:

1. bios screen
2. grub menu with the Debian background with the rocket
3. press return on the first menu entry
4. screen switches to black only
5. "Loading, please wait..." apears
6. screen switches to black only without nothing on it
7. after a while the gdm login screen apears with the Debian
    background with the rocket

The machine went ''dead'' (probably doing a loooooong fsck) after point 6.
*t