[Bug 1807537] Re: failure in fsck option of advanced boot

[Chris Guiver]

I had a look at the recovery-fsck option on this in exploring
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1153259/problem-with-grub-recovery-menu-
on-xubuntu-18-04-2 and had this issue.

This install is pretty fresh with almost no use as it was Xubuntu 19.10
(daily) QA-Test install of only a few days ago  (manual partitioning on
single partition; ext4)

guiverc at d780-xub:~$   apt-cache policy grub2
grub2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu3
  Version table:
     2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu3 500
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64 Packages

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Title:
  failure in fsck option of advanced boot

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I ran into this first on a 16.04.5 install I have.  I just retried it
  on a new laptop with 18.04.1 with the same result.

  When booting, I chose the advanced form, the rescue variant, and tried
  to use its fsck option.  This failed almost immediately.  I'm
  attaching a photo of the screen showing the error, but the text is

  /lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu: line 80: /etc/default/rcS: No such
  file or directory

  /dev/nvme0n1p5 is mounted.

  e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.

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  Thus there seems to be no point in having this fsck option because it is doomed to fail.  Well, at least in the absence of further guidance about how to use this.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: grub-common 2.02-2ubuntu8.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-42.45-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec  8 13:52:47 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-18 (51 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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