On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:04:23AM +0200, David wrote:
> I just tested this, and it doesn't seem to work for me :-/ (that's why
> I'm CC-ing the bug).
> 
> As before, hitting Ctrl+C does interrupt the / fsck, and the boot
> continues. However, the root filesystem remains readonly, my system
> has a lot of bootup errors and the bootup process takes a long time,
> forcing me to reboot again and let the / fsck finish. It's a nasty DoS
> condition :-/

That sounds like it's a problem with sysvinit scripts; its not the
responsibility of e2fsck to remount the filesystem read-write.  I'm
guessing the ^C managed to interrupt the sysvinit scripts as well as
the fsck program.

> Here is my /etc/e2fsck.conf:
> 
> =====
> [options]
>         buggy_init_scripts = 1
>         allow_cancellation = 1
> =====
> 
> My version has an extra "l" in cancellation, because that's how it is
> spelled in the man page.

That's how it's spelled /usr/dict/words, too.  :-)

       cancellation

                                                        - Ted



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