On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 09:52:56PM +0100, 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 have > > disappeared now. > > > > Is this a bug? It's really necessary for the system to say something > > as otherwise it simply looks as if the boot has hung for some reason > > and with big disks it can take a long time for the checks to complete. > > > First - are you sure that fsck is running? You've not changed the fstab > options? > > Secondly - I have 2 types of disk locally - ssd and hdd's - never really > notice fsck when it's checking on the ssd (unless I'm watching the monitor > at the time), but still see that on hdd's ( and did while testing the last 4 > releases - currently seeing it when it takes some time on Artful) > > If you haven't changed the options in fstab and fsck IS running - perhaps > set it to perform a check on next boot - and really watch the monitor - just > in case it's very quick. Then redo the fsck check - and edit the kernel line > so you've no quiet splash [1] - what you need to do is remove the quiet > splash from the linux line here, so you boot with text - see what that says. > > If you don't see anything on GUI - but do with text (and assuming here that > you've got hdd and not ssd - with no errors) I'd say that was a bug. > Thanks for this and other ideas. I'm away from home at the moment so can't try things out. I'll report back in a week or so when I'm back home.
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