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

[Mark - Syminet]

Thanks Steve for taking the time to explain.  This is exactly it -
people think that plymouth is only "annoying graphical stuff" without
realizing that upstart is replacing the System-V init entirely - already
has for the symlinks in /etc/init.d.  And the way upstart communicates
with the display (text or graphical - does not matter) is through
plymouth.  Which is why if you do a hacked removal of plymouth, upstart
jobs don't show up on the boot messages - only the old System-V jobs do.

I have only ubuntu servers here but will take a look at desktop this
week.  If desktop has a progress bar during fscks, then I guess one
approach might be to merge that with details so that we can toggle
between them using <esc>?  I don't think anybody would mind that much,
so long as we have at least some way to get the progress info (graphical
or otherwise).

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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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