Ubuntu
sysvinit package

checkroot.sh for reiserfs fails

Bug #66591 reported by Daniel Eckl
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sysvinit (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: initscripts

Hi!

After booting when I switch to terminal 8 and look at the startup messages, I see this output:

* Checking root file system...
fsck: fsck.reiser: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.reiser for /dev/sda2

Well, the script is right, there is no fsck.reiser because it's named fsck.reiserfs... Just the type found in the fstab (or whatever is the source for this value) says just "reiser".

One could fix the checkroot.sh script in the initscripts package to choose type "reiserfs" if it founds "reiser" type value, or one could fix the reiserfsprogs package to have a /sbin/fsck.reiser softlink.

Personally I think fixing checkroot.sh should be the correct solution as I don't know if symlinking fsck.reiserfs does have any unwanted side effects and since it's involved with filesystem, this might be critical.

Best,
Daniel

Revision history for this message
Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon) wrote :

Confirming for initscripts version 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu16.

Changed in sysvinit:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid)
Changed in sysvinit:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Daniel Eckl (daniel-eckl) wrote :

Ups... forgot my system infos, too. Thanks for the reminder, Andreas.. ;)
I have the bug on Dapper, initscripts 2.86.ds1-6ubuntu32

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Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon) wrote :

Sorry, I made an error. Please ignore my message above. I can't confirm this error in current Edgy. It's working fine here.

Daniel, could you check your /etc/fstab file. It looks like the line with your root filesystem there contains as type 'reiser' instead of 'reiserfs'. If that is the case just replace 'reiser' with 'reiserfs' and everything should be fine. Of course then the question is how that wrong entry came in you fstab.

Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon)
Changed in sysvinit:
status: Confirmed → Unconfirmed
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Daniel Eckl (daniel-eckl) wrote :

Okay, as I am not able to rule out that I'm the source of this error by myself and as nobody else seems to have this problem, I just have corrected my fstab and will close this bug report.

Thank you very much for your help and time!

Revision history for this message
Daniel Eckl (daniel-eckl) wrote :

Closed. Error most probably caused by user.

Changed in sysvinit:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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