Comment 164 for bug 571707

Oddly this was fixed in Ubuntu 10.4.2 and its sub-sequent releases. Mint
maintains that the bug lies upstream. Oh wth I'm using LMDE now

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:34 PM, queo <email address hidden> wrote:

> this fix doesn't work
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707
>
> Title:
> fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU
>
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
> Fix Released
> Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “mountall” source package in Lucid:
> Fix Released
> Status in “plymouth” source package in Lucid:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> PROBLEM
>
> When a disk check is performed, the progress stalls somewhere around
> 70% and will then take a very long time finishing the remaining
> percent (10 minutes or more).
>
> PATCH
>
> Patch for mountall has now been pushed as an update for Lucid, if you
> are still seeing this problem, make sure you have mountall 2.15
> installed before commenting/reporting a new bug.
>
> [Earlier patch comments:]
> Tero Mononen has published a patch for Bug #553745 which applies to the
> issue described here as well (see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/76and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/77)
>
> I have created corresponding packages which are available through my
> PPA: https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/unstable
>
> !!!Do note that this is an unofficial, untested, preliminary patch!!!
> However testing and feedback is welcome, please especially report if there
> are ANY (new) problems seen when using the patched version.
>
> TEST CASE:
>
> (sudo aptitude install bootchart)
> sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo reboot
>
> POSSIBLE TEMPORARY WORKAROUNDS
>
> 1. Removing "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel boot line
>
> 2. When the progress has stalled, switch away from the splash screen
> using the left arrowkey (presumably any arrowkey works).
>
> * Both these approaches speeds up the boot process to ~1 minute
> instead.
>
> OBSERVATIONS
>
> The fsck message "(...) non-contiguous (...)" Which I assume indicates
> the end of the fsck, is printed in the Virtual Terminal ("outside"
> plymouth) at around 70% + ~10-20 seconds.
>
> Disk activity is null from this point on (presumed end of fsck above).
>
> Bootchart crashes if trying to catch the whole boot at once with
> plymouth (at least for my 1h boot).
>
> This problem seems to occur in both plymouthd and mountall,
> semi-simultaneously:
> If you are in the plymouth screen, plymouthd is the cpu-gobbler, if you
> switch away from it using the arrow keys, mountall instead takes over the
> cpu-eating.
>
> #####
>
> ORIGINAL REPORT
>
> Binary package hint: mountall
>
> On my system when fsck runs at boot plymouth % completion count goes
> up quickly (<10 seconds) up to about 80% and then slows down
> considerably: the complete fsck of my 125GB HD, 30% full takes more
> than 5 minutes.
>
> While this goes on the text VTs are all completely blank: just a
> blinking cursor.
>
> An fsck from a recovery disk completes in ~10 seconds so it doesn't
> look like "fsck just being slow".
>
> This slowdown was *not* happening on 2010-04-14 with the PPA described
> by this comment:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737/comments/25
>
> The fix in the PPA is now in the mainline lucid but somewhere in
> between then and today (2010-04-29) something introduced this
> slowdown.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: mountall 2.14
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Apr 29 15:38:56 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100317.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_IE:en_GB:en
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_IE.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: mountall
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