Comment 10 for bug 500198

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Linard Verstraete (linardv) wrote : Re: opening pipe: no such file or directory

*** System ***
Hardware: Dell Vostro 1500.
Xubuntu Lucid Alpha 2 - 2010-1-12.2

I don't get the "Opening pipe..."-message and it seems that the disk does get checked, there is only no interaction with the user.

If I run the checker with default boot options, I get a black-screen, and it starts to check my disk for 4m30s. After that my CD spins-down due the checking-process is complete. But it doesn't respond to any keystroke to reboot the system. I have to use Ctrl+Alt+Del (Alt+SysReq+B, doesn't seem to work).

If I compare this with the behavior of the 9.04 release, I got an visual progress-bar, and it starts to check my disk for 4m30s (did 2 stopwatch tests, both for 9.04 and 10.04). After that my CD spins-down due to the checking-process is complete. Response to a keystroke and system rebooted.

If I run the checker without the options "quiet splash", I see that the console-output gets interrupted around the line:
"ACPI: Video Device [VID] ...", bright flash, cleared screen, and continuation of output on
"Console: switching to colour frame buffer ..."
Maybe this is related to having no visual feedback with the splash option? I didn't had that small interruption on the 9.04. Aside from that output seems similar to 9.04 aside from usual differences (squashfs 4.0 vs. squashfs 3.3, ...).

So my guess is that the checking of the CD still works, but the visualization and keyboard-listing is somehow broken...