[Bug 988369] Re: Disk error when system time is in past

[Steve Langasek]

Plymouth doesn't produce any messages, it just displays them.
Reassigning to mountall which is responsible for the message.

mountall may or may not have enough information from fsck to be able to
provide a better error message however.  This needs looking into.

** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => mountall (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Oliver Grawert (ogra)

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Title:
  Disk error when system time is in past

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  
  The cause for an error

  "Errors while checking disk drive for /MyPartition"

  can also be an earlier system time! It took a long time to find this
  out: when booting the kernel with noplymouth and without "quiet
  splash", I found the reason for the "disk errors":

  "Der Zeitpunkt des letzten Schreibens von SuperBlock (Wed Apr 25
  13:27:46 2012, jetzt: Mon Apr 23 09:46:10 2012) liegt in der Zukunft."

  which is something like "superblock last write time is in the future".
  See Bug #268808 for a similar description.

  As the normal Ubuntu boot screen just shows a message "disk error",
  and all the fixing like fsck doesn't help, it would be much clearer to
  have a message like "system time before max file system time! (Check
  system time in BIOS!)".

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