Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway

From	Sam Smith <debian@net153.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway
Date	2015-09-12 21:00 +0200
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On 09/07/2015 01:23 PM, Sam Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been getting some strange fsck errors for over a year now on my
> Debian 8 workstation. See photo: http://tinyurl.com/otzxebh Ignore the
> softreset errors. I can't really remember when the issue started, but it
> was sometime after I upgraded to using systemd. I kept thinking it was a
> bug and would fix itself, but apparently not.
>
> As the photo shows /dev/md_d1 (a partitionable raid5 array) is brought
> online, hangs for about 10 seconds, displays fsck: error 2 while
> executing fsck.ext3 for /dev/md_d1p1
> followed by error code 8 (operational error)
> Then the systemd-fsck runs next and completes fine and the system boots.
> So is this some conflict between util-linux and systemd? All my
> filesystems are ext4 by the way.
>
> Another issue is when a fsck actually does run, systemd doesn't display
> the output, the screen just hangs for 20 minutes or so which to the
> unknown user, they may reboot the machine and screw stuff up. Is that
> just the nature of systemd or is there a fix?
>
> I tried googling all these issues but really couldn't get anywhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>


Ok, found my issue. I had rootfstype=ext4 as a kernel parameter, yet the 
FS was not converted fully to ext4. Must have been like that for awhile, 
because I converted all my FS's to ext4 back in 2009.

--Sam

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Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2015-09-07 20:40 +0200
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    Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2015-09-12 04:00 +0200
  Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-09 20:20 +0200
    Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2015-09-12 04:10 +0200
  Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2015-09-12 21:00 +0200

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