Hi, I have this problem too on Ubuntu Intreprid (latest updates) The cause of the problem is that my /home directory is on a ext3 partition and my / partition is on a reiserfs partition.
The /home partition reached the max mount count (31), so normally I'm used that it checks the drive in splash, but for some reason it didn't (When switching on splash boot messages after a reboot It reported "mounting local file systems: failed") and went on booting. When in gdm, trying to login it said 'COuld not login becasue /home/nathan' doesn't exists, Login anyway? Login anyway failed becasue of an erorr on .dmrc (file permissions were not correct, but gdm probably couldn't even find the file. At that time I didn't knew what was going on, but I suspected the max mount count. But since my virtual terminals doesn't work - I guess I have to file another bug report for that) - and I couldn't login, I could not check that. I then booted with another kernel: 2.6.26=> (I only have latest 2.6.26 from repositiories, and 2.6.27 from someone elses repository), but same story. I then booted in foresight linux (which has its /home directory on the same partition as its /) and ran fsck on my ubuntu's /home partition. Indeed a check was forced. After the fs check was done I rebooted in ubuntu and everything was ok. Conclusion: If the /home partition is checked the user should be reported that (as in previous version), maybe the boot can continue but in any case gdm should wait for the check to end (or gdm should show a nice message, and only tolerate login after the check has finished) -- GDM starts before home directories mounted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
