Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-27 Thread flocculant
On 27/05/17 11:40, Chris Green wrote: [snip] 16.04 Ok - was hoping it to be 16.10 - that had some white on the plymouth screen - not too good with white text. I'd suggest reporting it then, could be that there is a Xubuntu specific issue going, in which case the bug might get re-routed to

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 07:11:10AM +0100, flocculant wrote: > > > On 19/05/17 21:52, flocculant wrote: > > > > > > On 17/05/17 13:26, Chris Green wrote: > > > I used to get a (small) message on the pre-login screen when fsck disk > > > checks were done automatically at start up. These seem to

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-26 Thread fred roller
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: > There are long pauses with a blank screen and no message. This part I can agree with on any software. Long pauses without a indication of activity, especially if you are used to less than a second or two pause in any

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-26 Thread Peter Flynn
On 26 May 2017 10:50:30 Chris Green wrote: The default is every 24 reboots isn't it, hardly "extreme rarity". But the point isn't how frequently it's configured, it's the fact that it doesn't tell the user AT ALL TIMES what it's doing. There are long pauses with a blank

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-26 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 05:02:20PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: > On 05/20/2017 06:05 PM, Chris Green wrote: > > [..] > > But you *still* haven't actually understood my problem! :-) > > Don't fret :-) It has sometimes taken me a year or more to make myself > plain... > > > In the past (i.e.

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-21 Thread Joao Monteiro
Two cents from a newbie who has nevertheless years of similar pains from microsoft... One sure way I have learnt to check if the system is hung or just slowly mawling whatever it is doing, is by looking at the Hard Disk indicator light on the machine; when the system hungs, the light stays dead,

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-20 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 02:35:15PM -0400, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: >On May 19, 2017 8:47 AM, "Chris Green" <[1]c...@isbd.net> wrote: > >On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 06:54:01AM -0400, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: >> dumpe2fs should tell how many times the disk was mounted. This >may

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-19 Thread flocculant
On 17/05/17 13:26, Chris Green wrote: I used to get a (small) message on the pre-login screen when fsck disk checks were done automatically at start up. These seem to have disappeared now. Is this a bug? It's really necessary for the system to say something as otherwise it simply looks as

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-19 Thread Peter Flynn
On 05/19/2017 01:46 PM, Chris Green wrote: > I just want the warning message in the GUI to appear when it *does* > run so that I won't think something has gone wrong and hung the > system boot process. This and several related pauses during boot have been the subject of repeated questions over

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-19 Thread Istimsak Abdulbasir
On May 19, 2017 8:47 AM, "Chris Green" wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 06:54:01AM -0400, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > dumpe2fs should tell how many times the disk was mounted. This may >give an indication of when fsck will run again. I DON'T CARE WHEN IT WILL RUN

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-19 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 06:54:01AM -0400, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > dumpe2fs should tell how many times the disk was mounted. This may >give an indication of when fsck will run again. I DON'T CARE WHEN IT WILL RUN AGAIN! :-) I just want the warning message in the GUI to

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-18 Thread Istimsak Abdulbasir
On May 18, 2017 2:37 AM, "Chris Green" wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:33:25PM -0400, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: >On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Chris Green <[1]c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > I used to get a (small) message on the pre-login screen when fsck > disk >

Re: [xubuntu-users] No indication of disk checks at login

2017-05-17 Thread Istimsak Abdulbasir
On May 17, 2017 4:48 PM, "Cody Smith" wrote: Though depending on the system, that escape key will simply pause the boot animation, I know it does on my system, still trying to pin why and what causes it. Well that's something to keep in mind. Never experienced that On