I've done more testing of this with forced fsck runs (generated by the
utc clock bug-reconfigure tzdata to "utc", then BIOS clock to local time
to avoid this), and the shell works, though the first login prompt
refuses the root password, echoing it to the console(DANGEROUS in some
environments) and you must try again.
There is still one serious problem: because the shell is external to
mountall, fsck re-runs and errors out again if you try to skip with
control-d! This could be especially bad if someone has not manually set
a root password, assuming the system still demands one.
I am about to roll back the time again and see if it is even possible to
control-d out of the shell with no root password at all.
If this is not fixed, Ubuntu Karmic should prompt for a root password by
default on installation AND on upgrade, otherwise end users without rescue
flash drives/disks could get seriously locked out.
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