[ILUG] fsck on mounted filesystems

[Paul Askins]

Hi,

I decided to upgrade to Kernel 2.4.1 last night and in reading the Changes file
notices I needed to upgrade a few packages including gcc, make, binutils and so
on aswell as e2fsprogs.  Since this, my system wont start up properly.  I think
the problem comes from the e2fstools upgrade.  At startup, I get as far as
mounting local file systems and something like this happens:
Mounting local filesystems  OK
Checking loopback filesystems /dev/hdg5 is mounted
Cannot continue aborting
Error occured during file system check.  Dropping you to a shell.

I know this error comes from rc.sysinit.  It seems to want to fsck the file
systems (maybe because maximal mount count has been reached) but it's mounting
them first.  Like I said, this has only occured since upgrading the packages. 
It happens when I boot either 2.2.17 or 2.4.1.  When it drops to a shell, I can
init 3 and everything seems fine.  I also have loopback support in the kernel.

Does anyone have any idea what's causing this.  I installed e2fsprogs v1.19. 
Main reason for upgrade is that I want to use reiserfs on a new 30G drive.

Thanks,
Paul.

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Paul Askins <:)
Email:  Paul Askins <paul.askins at adbvdesign.analog.com>
Date:   27-Mar-01, 13:34:05

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