When i touch /forcefsck and reboot system, i'm geting: Filesystem was repaired but reboot is needed. OS reboots and situation happens again, reboot and reboot... / is ext4 on md raid1, 1.2 metadata version. I don't know what other information would be usefull, this is why description is so short. Reproducible: Always # emerge --info FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): Xsplitdebug, Yfail-clean, Yuserpriv Portage 2.1.10.44 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_4300_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.7 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo horhe zfs ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -s" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="Xsplitdebug Yfail-clean Yuserpriv assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="pl_PL.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en pl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="-O" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/zfs" SYNC="rsync://ftp.vectranet.pl/gentoo-portage/" USE="acpi amd64 bash-completion caps hardened ipv6 mmx mmxext multilib openmp sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 threads unicode urandom vim-syntax" DRACUT_MODULES="caps mdraid" ELIBC="glibc" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en pl" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="tarpit" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Dracut should ask you before reboot to perform it. Didn't it? Can you reproduce this problem with 016?
With 016 nothing changed. Now i can see i should be more precise in description. All cycle looks like that: a) kernel starts b) in the meantime appears line from dracut: dracut: issuing e2fsck -f on ....(i don't remember all line) Dracut doesn't display any other information about this e2fsck (no progress etc) c) openrc starts d) openrc do forced fsck on root partition e) openrc displays message "Filesystem was repaired but reboot is needed" and reboots host On other host (which doesn't use dracut) i don't have such issue with /forcefsck this is why i submit bug for dracut.
I consider /forcefsck written on a corrupt disk is itself a bug. openSUSE and Debian since long support a cmdline parameter forcefsck, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529498
In my case rootfs isn't corrupted, i tested if /forcefsck works. Agree kernel boot parameter "forcefsck" is usefull.
(In reply to comment #2) > With 016 nothing changed. Now i can see i should be more precise in > description. All cycle looks like that: > a) kernel starts > b) in the meantime appears line from dracut: > dracut: issuing e2fsck -f on ....(i don't remember all line) > Dracut doesn't display any other information about this e2fsck (no progress > etc) > c) openrc starts > d) openrc do forced fsck on root partition > e) openrc displays message "Filesystem was repaired > but reboot is needed" and reboots host Do I understand correctly that dracut doesn't remove /forcefsck after successful fsck and therefore openrc is forced to refsck? Does the bug still occurs with 022? If so could you provide me /run/initramfs/dracut.log which is created when rd.debug is appended to cmdline options.
Yes, you are right, file /forcefsck was still present. I've tried dracut-0.22-r1 and i couldn't reproduce problem. It looks it's fixed for me. Thanks.
Good. :-) Closing.
