Bug#862217: initscript does fsck on empty floppy drive and stops booting

[KatolaZ]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:55:58PM +0000, Pierre Ynard wrote:
> > The final field there, the 1, is the fs_passno field and means to
> > check the filesystem.  See fstab(5).  Where did that fstab entry come
> > from ?  That is where the bug lies.
> 
> Anybody knows who else than the admin could be responsible for
> generating or adding entries to /etc/fstab? The installer? So that the
> respective maintainers could take a look at this. This is apparently not
> an issue with initscripts.
> 

The installer puts entries in /etc/fstab. I think finish-install is in
charge of that, but I am not sure if more than one component can
actually mangle with fstab. If anything, it should run with a
menu-item number larger than 6500 (base-installer).

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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