USplash disappears during ReiserFS file system check, Effects Hardy Heron

I am not sure if this may be pertinent, but my machine was upgraded from Hoary
to Breezy and so it is not a fresh install.

Does the check last for 15 seconds or longer?

I can confirm this problem: usplash times out on my PC since I installed a larger harddisk
(breezy _and_ dapper). Setting the usplash timeout to a greater value solved the problem.

I can confirm this with dapper and using ext3 filesystem, the partition is
roughly 20Gb - not huge!

I can confirm this on dapper. I tried to solve it by adding

/sbin/usplash_write "TIMEOUT 60"

to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/usplash (just after the sleep 1 after starting usplash), but this didn't work. And it clearly doesn't take 60 seconds to mount. I probably added it in the wrong file though. I'll try a bit more and post results.

Yes, I added it in the wrong file. The problem is indeed solved by increasing the timeout, which I did by making a file /etc/rcS.d/S29usplash_timeout.sh with these two lines in it:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/usplash_write "TIMEOUT 60"

The timeout change could be added to checkfs.sh, no? In a machine with a couple of 120G disks, a 160G, and some smaller ones 60 is enough.

Another thing I noticed is when we're using the pass with 2 for every extra disk, the output of the check come all mixed up (because it is running in pararell?), should it be a good idea to change the pass number for each extra disk? 1 for root, 2 for /home, 3...n for each extra disk? This would permit per partition check and information in usplash, instead of checking all disks?

:)

usplash disappears for me on every single boot, and when it drops down to console, it's checking file systems. I have two harddrives and five different partitions, so that may be the reason.

It's the timeout.

Try to add

usplash_write "TIMEOUT 60" to /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh (this should drop
the .sh, no? ;))

Larger disks take a bit more to mount, and usplash times out.

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 20:07 +0000, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> usplash disappears for me on every single boot, and when it drops down
> to console, it's checking file systems. I have two harddrives and five
> different partitions, so that may be the reason.
>

usplash has to flip due to lack of fsck progress, if it were able to use that, it could behave better

Hey, that creating a bash script "/etc/rcS.d/S29usplash_timeout.sh" really did the trick! I now have a working usplash! Thanks.

ps. first time I ever had to make a script file. Thank you. Almost total noob here.

I can confirm this issue with Ubuntu Hardy Heron Final Fresh install with / and /home as reiserfs, the usplash disappears until login after reiserfs check , also reiserfs seems a hell of allot faster than ext3, why doesnt ubuntu use it as default, everything loads faster like gnome/menu's accessing files, writing files, compiling etc...