Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56472
fsck a ext[2-3] fs too much time to see if it is clean or no
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:21 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: when the system is booting, to make the fsck of a ext[2-3] fs get too much time to see if it is clean or no. The kernel is 2.4.9-13, but with a linus kernel 2.4.15p-pre6 the system boot ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. Cheking root filesystem 3. ... wait.... Additional info:
---dmesg at boot-- ... usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on ide0(3,3), internal journal .... --end-- The kernel is trying to read the _external_ floppy disk of my dell inspiron laptop, but WHY? if i connect the floopy the system boot imediately. but if i dont conenct the fd, it took 2 minutes "Cheking root filesystem" and then put the fs status tha it is _clean_ and boot. why here? --cut /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit-- STRING=$"Checking root filesystem" echo $STRING initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" --cut-- with the linus kernel 2.4.15pre6 is booting ok
the problem was I was playing with raid partitions and 'rh-kernel' had a very strange bug and it does not a e2fsprogs bug