Dapper: persistent boot failure - ext3 filesystem not detected

Apparently is fixed by:

http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libs/klibc/klibc.git;a=commit;h=2f7cdff4361e65c6405a0a0e17363e9684567fa0

Which through some unfortunate circumstance does not appear to be in dapper version of klibc..

i'm using Dapper LTS.

yesterday my girlfriend (with "Desktop" right only) have shutdown our computer and relaunch it later in the afternoon and ... the problem began :

ubuntu start to initialize, then prompt/BusyBox :

Mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: No such device
Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed : No such file or directory
Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed : No such file or directory
Target filesystem does not have /sbin/init

BusyBox (...) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

after one hour of reading forum using Dapper LiveCD, i found this :
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=303897#p303897
and this :
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-95729.html

and try similar solution :
sudo mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ubuntu
sudo vim /mnt/ubuntu/bug_minix
type some word (the adresse of the post where i found the solution ^^)
<escap>:wq!

and reboot ... et voilà. the problem was resolve.

how can i give you more details to investigate and really resolve this bug ?

(sorry for my poor english)

Has the fix for this still not been integrated into Dapper? Incredible.

This bug is rather critical IMHO.

/Ulf

2007/4/14, dovik <email address hidden>:
> i'm using Dapper LTS.
>
> yesterday my girlfriend (with "Desktop" right only) have shutdown our
> computer and relaunch it later in the afternoon and ... the problem
> began :
>
> ubuntu start to initialize, then prompt/BusyBox :
>
> Mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: No such device
> Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
> Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed : No such file or directory
> Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed : No such file or directory
> Target filesystem does not have /sbin/init
>
> BusyBox (...) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
> /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>
> after one hour of reading forum using Dapper LiveCD, i found this :
> http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=303897#p303897
> and this :
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-95729.html
>
> and try similar solution :
> sudo mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
> sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ubuntu
> sudo vim /mnt/ubuntu/bug_minix
> type some word (the adresse of the post where i found the solution ^^)
> <escap>:wq!
>
> and reboot ... et voilà. the problem was resolve.
>
> how can i give you more details to investigate and really resolve this
> bug ?
>
> (sorry for my poor english)
>
> --
> ext3 reported as minix
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/37528
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

This was fixed in klibc 1.3.1 (i.e. Edgy and onward). Opening a new Dapper task for this, in the event that anyone wants to backport it.

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