Well, I guess this is more of a feature request than a bug report, but I think it has potential to be quite serious/annoying. When you boot, it checks the root filesystem for errors with fsck (by default this is every 32 boots or so). Occasionally it finds a error in the filesystem, and needs to change it. After it changes it, a very obvious message appears stating '***REBOOT LINUX***'. I usualy obey the message, and reboot as soon as I get the login prompt. But sometimes I forge to reboot; Failing to do so can (and did a few times in my case) result in some filesystem corruption. I had to repair it manualy with fsck and the liveCD. All I'm asking is for gentoo to automatically reboot should fsck prompt the user to do so. Many other distrobutions including Slackware does this. Sorry for the long post! Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot with a slightly inconsistend EXT2/3 filesystem 2. During init, fsck picks up the error, and repairs it. It prompts the user to reboot 3. Forget :) Actual Results: I ran the system without problems for a few hours. Then I noticed that some of my commands (notably 'emerge') was going missing. I checked the syslog, and realized that the filesystem was not well. Expected Results: After fsck repaired the FS, Gentoo should have automatically rebooted. Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21 i686 AMD Duron(tm) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 apm avi crypt gif jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline svga ggi tcltk java guile tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl cdr sdl dvd encode 3dnow mmx oss sse -gpm arts -rpm -directfb -nas -aalib -alsa X cups -gnome kde qt xml pda samba" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
This bug has been inactive for some time. As far as I can tell, the checkroot script reboots automagically when needed. (at least in baselayout 1.8.6.10-r1). I might be wrong. Please reopen this bug if the problem persists.
