GNU bug report logs - #25917
operating-system file-system with (check? #t) but (needed-for-boot #f) pauses boot until user interaction

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25917: closed (operating-system file-system with (check? #t)
 but (needed-for-boot #f) pauses boot until user interaction)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:35:02 +0000

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: operating-system file-system with (check? #t) but (needed-for-boot
 #f) pauses boot until user interaction
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:38:38 +0100

If one has a operating-system file-system with (check? #t) but (needed-for-boot #f), the next boot after reconfiguring will boot into a Guile REPL because the initrd doesn't contain the fsck tool for that file system (because all the file-systems with (needed-for-boot #f) have been filtered out). Therefore, the normal boot process breaks.

Possible fixes:
- If (check? #t) but (needed-for-boot? #f), include the tool anyway, XOR
- If (check? #t) but (needed-for-boot? #f), don't check anyway

This can be reproduced for example by connecting an USB flash storage stick with a filesystem with a type on it that's not used in any other file-system declaration.

NB: If (check? #t) and (needed-for-boot? #t), everything works fine.

For all these, (mount? #t) (the default).

This is on Guix master from a few minutes ago.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 25917-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25917: [PATCH v2] services: file-system-shepherd-service:
 Make it find the fsck programs.
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:34:15 +0200

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> * gnu/services/base.scm (file-system-shepherd-service): Use
> file-system-packages.

That was pushed as 26e34e1e1288d657e92372efb6edc95c0e299247.
Closing.

Ludo’.

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