[xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

[flocculant]

On 19/05/17 21:52, flocculant wrote:
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> On 17/05/17 13:26, Chris Green wrote:
>> I used to get a (small) message on the pre-login screen when fsck disk
>> checks were done automatically at start up.  These seem to have
>> disappeared now.
>>
>> Is this a bug?  It's really necessary for the system to say something
>> as otherwise it simply looks as if the boot has hung for some reason
>> and with big disks it can take a long time for the checks to complete.
>>
> First - are you sure that fsck is running? You've not changed the 
> fstab options?
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> Secondly - I have 2 types of disk locally - ssd and hdd's - never 
> really notice fsck when it's checking on the ssd (unless I'm watching 
> the monitor at the time), but still see that on hdd's ( and did while 
> testing the last 4 releases - currently seeing it when it takes some 
> time on Artful)
>
> If you haven't changed the options in fstab and fsck IS running - 
> perhaps set it to perform a check on next boot - and really watch the 
> monitor - just in case it's very quick. Then redo the fsck check - and 
> edit the kernel line so you've no quiet splash [1] - what you need to 
> do is remove the quiet splash from the linux line here, so you boot 
> with text - see what that says.
>
> If you don't see anything on GUI - but do with text (and assuming here 
> that you've got hdd and not ssd - with no errors) I'd say that was a bug.
>
> regards
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>
> [1] 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/19486/how-do-i-add-a-kernel-boot-parameter
>
Forgot to ask what version of Xubuntu this is?