Bug#696624: linux-utils: System fails to boot if system date is corrected.

[David Smith]

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.20.1-5.3
Severity: important

Hello.

I recently noticed that one of my PC's system clock had drifted into the
future.  I corrected the system clock and then after the next shutdown/restart,
the PC disappeared off the network.   I went over and hooked a display up to it
and got this:

http://imgur.com/PmH6P

Somehow it's interpreting a regular system clock change as a filesystem error
that needs an administrator password to fix.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.48
ii  dpkg   1.16.9
ii  initscripts2.88dsf-34
ii  install-info   4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii  libblkid1  2.20.1-5.3
ii  libc6  2.13-37
ii  libncurses55.9-10
ii  libselinux12.1.9-5
ii  libslang2  2.2.4-15
ii  libtinfo5  5.9-10
ii  libuuid1   2.20.1-5.3
ii  lsb-base   4.1+Debian8
ii  tzdata 2012j-1
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  dosfstools  3.0.13-1
ii  kbd 1.15.3-9
pn  util-linux-locales  none

-- debconf information:
  util-linux/noauto-with-nonzero-passnum:


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Bug#696624: linux-utils: System fails to boot if system date is corrected.

[David Prévot]

Hi,

 Somehow it's interpreting a regular system clock change as a filesystem
 error

And thus trigger an automatic filesystem check, which doesn't seem like a
bad idea by default when the last mount was in the future.

 that needs an administrator password to fix.

It looks like the automatic check was not able to perform (because of
errors he couldn't handle), and thus ask the administrator to perfomm a
manual check. Can you confirm the file system was not clean?

Regards

David


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