Re: [coLinux-devel] apt-get dist-upgrade broke my Debian

[Pat E. <pat...@ma...>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:04:58 +0100
Karol Bryd <kb...@py...> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:43:52PM +0100, Marko Bozikovic wrote:
> > Heh. A big SNAFU here :)
> > 
> > Here's what I did: took the base Debian image, installed a few packages: 
> > less, vim, base-config, ssh.
> > 
> > Then I changed sources.list to fetch stuff from unstable distribution, and 
> > did apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade. I did its magic, and everything 
> > worked fine until I rebooted coLinux. On the next boot I got this:
> > 
> > 
> > Checking root file system...
> > fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> > /dev/cobd0: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 262144 
> > blocks
> > The physical size of the device is 0 blocks
> > Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
> > 
> > /dev/cobd0: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> >         (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> > 
> 
> This is because the initscripts package got updated and
> /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh also, just edit it and change the line with
> "rootcheck=yes" to "rootcheck=no".

pardon my ignorance here, but isn't NOT checking root a little hackish
of a solution?  and also, isn't it a little not safe?  I have fsck working
on my gentoo images.

Pat Erley