[Bug 765735] Re: mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console

[Mark - Syminet]

Regarding this, I rebuilt a mountall package that fixed this bug and uploaded it to my PPA about two years ago.  

I added the "--fsck-console" option to mountall, and then added the
option to enable this at boot time by adding the line "FSCKCONSOLE=yes"
to /etc/defaults/rcS.  From the changelog:

   * Added "--fsck-console" parameter to use console progress bar.  To
     enable, add "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" to /etc/defaults/rcS. 

My PPA package is still sitting on Launchpad here:
https://launchpad.net/~mark-syminet/+archive/syminet/+packages

If this seems a good approach, I'm willing to spend the time to take a
look at this again but only if someone is willing to consider getting it
into the distribution, since I only want to use distribution packages on
servers for critical boot-things like this.

This really is a particularly nasty bug because servers can run for a
long time without a power cut, etc. - but then that fateful day arrives
and we are stuck without any idea if the remote machine is even hung,
while bosses and customers are screaming about downtime demanding ETA's.

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Title:
  mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  mountall should cause fsck to show progress information (-C 0).

  Especially on large FS that take very long to fsck (sometimes many hours) it is very important 
  to know that the fsck isn't actually hanging and still working.
  It is not possible to log in via console or ssh to check the status even for filesystems that are not boot- essential.

  Plymouth splash screen is disabled as this machine is a server.

  This behaviour has caused trouble several times already as the system
  was believed to be hanging and unresponsive and got rebooted while the
  fsck was still running.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: mountall 2.25ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 19 11:51:06 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  SourcePackage: mountall
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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