[Bug 1939238] Re: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

[Theodore Ts'o]

Your suggested message presupposes that busybox is used on a particular
distribution.   That's not necessarily the case.   Remember, e2fsprogs
is designed for all distributions, not just for Ubuntu.  If Canonical
wants to make a change like that to e2fsprogs, all distributions are
free to make any changes they want to a package.  (At which point they
own any liability if the user is clueless enough that they need that
amount of hand holding, but if that information is just enough to cause
them to attempt to do a file system fixup, but they then lose files
because they fumble the job, that's on Ubuntu, not on me.)

Or perhaps Canonical could put a multiple page, or even a book-length
tutorial in its initramfs scripts that tries to teach all eventualities
of what a user might need to fix when they run e2fsck by hand, if fsck
exits with an error code indicating that the file system needs to be
fixed by hand.   Again, feel free to convince canonical to do something
like that if it's really needed by novice users.   Personally, I think
it's roughly equivalent to trying to teach medicine to a novice as
opposed to telling them to see a doctor, but hey, Ubuntu can try to
break ground by trying to lead users by the hand.   I do predict that
after you tell users to "hit fsck /dev/xxxxxx", what will happen next is
users will go to forum.ubuntu-fr.org and ask, how do I answer this
question?  I'm so confused....   Where does this end?

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Title:
  UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello
  This problem did not occur on my computer.

  https://nsa40.casimages.com/img/2021/08/07/210807015400327092.png

  It occurs in users who are not competent.
  This week, the French forum collapsed over this incident.

  I think changing the advice phrase might improve understanding of the
  action to be taken.

  Can these lines
  "   ( i.e.. without -a or -p options) 
  fsck existed with status code 4
  The root file system on /dev/XXXXXXXX requires a manual fsck"
  become
  "execute this command 'fsck -y /dev/xxxxxx' to do a manual fsck on the root file system."

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.38.1-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-25.27-generic 5.11.22
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Aug  8 15:16:28 2021
  ExecutablePath: /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-02 (370 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-07-11 (27 days ago)

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