On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:40:51PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > the same time. That should give you a minimal idea on what is going > on. However no progress bar. In the syslog output the progress bar would > not make much sense probably. fsck (at least in the ext234 > implementation) supports the -C parameter to direct progress bar > information (and only the progress bar) to a specific fd. However, that > information is intended for applications to parse it, not to show on the > screen. I am not really sure what to do about this. One option would be > to extend -C to show a "human readable" progress bar on the file name > passed. Then we could just invoke fsck with "-C /dev/console" and would > get a progress bar printed on the console, and the console only. But it > keeps me wondering how that would look like if multiple fs are handled > in parallel. It would look pretty ugly. But having no output at all is very undesirable, because it makes the system look hung, and particularly because (as in this case) the most recently-printed messages may have nothing at all to do with what is blocking the boot. > Another option would be to parse fsck's output and forward it in some > form to Plymouth to show in the normal progress bar. But I am not sure > if Plymouth can actually do that. (Ray?) Also, this doesn't solve the Also, it doesn't solve the problem in cases where one isn't running plymouth, which I hope is a use case that systemd intends to take seriously. > I think not having the progress bar for F15 is acceptable, but I am all > ears for suggestions how to implement this best post-F15. Especially if > somebody wants to do the work... ;-) I don't think it's a blocker, but it should probably get put into the release notes. Things like this cause end-user and support-center pain. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
