close 327580 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1
thanks
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:01:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote:
> Greetings. I am (well: was) using the current version of e2fsprogs
> (1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.10-1), and every-other boot gives the above error
> message for the root partition, followed by stopping the boot process and
> offering the opportunity to get into maintenance mode to run fsck by hand.
> The root partition is marked dirty.
This is fixed in e2fsprogs 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12-31-1, uploaded just
recently. The real problem, as documented in the logs for Debian bugs
#343662 and #343645, is that Debian's boot scripts are buggy and don't
set the time correctly (to correct for systems that need to be
bug-compatible with Windows and set their hardware clocks to
localtime) until very late in the boot sequence. If you are using
your clocks set to local time, your system clock will be off by eight
hours (assuming you are in California) until long after e2fsck is
finished running.
The workaround causes e2fsck to not abort the boot, but it will still
complain bitterly. Bugs have been filed with the linux-util and
initscripts package. Hopefully this bug will be fixed soon.
- Ted
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