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reiserfsprogs package

Boot splash screen always disappears at reiserfs check.

Bug #32398 reported by MB
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This bug affects 2 people
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reiserfsprogs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Everytime the system is booting, the splash screen goes away when the HDs are checked.

I have 2 linux software raids, formatted with reiserfs; and 1 disk with ext3. The 2 reiserfs partitions take some time at every boot, this is when the splash screen disapears.

Furthermore, between grub and the bootup, some text is shortly displayed. Suse has had a perfect boot splash with no text for several years now (suse, but especialy the nld9 boot, is a beauty) (the beautiful suse/novell splash works at bootup AND shutdown). Why not look at what has been proven to work over the years instead of reinventing the wheel ?

(with suse I have not problem with my reiserfs disks, the splash screen is always there).

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

usplash has to flip due to lack of fsck progress, if it were able to use that, it could behave better

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Id2ndR (id2ndr) wrote :

Unmark as duplicate since usplash fix of Bug #38303 only fix ext2/3 FS.

Id2ndR (id2ndr)
Changed in usplash:
status: New → Confirmed
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Id2ndR (id2ndr) wrote :

I have seen that /sbin/fsck tool is in e2fsprogs package. But /sbin/fsck.reiserfs is in reiserfsprogs so I have change affected package to this one.

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Id2ndR (id2ndr) wrote :

I have a workaround based on this comment post before fix for ext2/3 : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/38303
Look at attached patch. (Timeout may be decrease to 30)

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Id2ndR (id2ndr) wrote :

I have a workaround based on this comment post before fix for ext2/3 : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/38303
Look at attached patch. (Timeout may be decrease to 30)

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in current 8.04 or 8.10 alpha?

Changed in reiserfsprogs:
importance: Medium → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

Yes, happens every boot on Hardy. I have never seen a "clean" boot using reiserfs.

Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)
Changed in reiserfsprogs:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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TRiSS (triss) wrote :

I can also confirm this issue in 9.04 beta (kubuntu)

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Jim H (jh-333) wrote :

I am also getting this on Kubuntu Jaunty.

The Resierfs filesystems on md RAID are checked every time (I'm shutting down the computer normally) so bootup takes a long time. This is a 1TB filesystem raided over two SATA drives in RAID1 setup.

However, on my eeepc netbook/laptop I have a reiserfs filesystem on solid state drive and it starts quite quickly. Possibly the issue is specific to ResierFS on RAID.

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Carl Vondrick (carl-vondrick) wrote :

Happens on a single hard drive (1 TB) using Resier3 on every boot.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This looks like it was a problem in usplash, not reiserfsprogs, and usplash has been replaced with plymouth, which handles this correctly.

Changed in reiserfsprogs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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