bug#381: automatic e2fsck asks for nonexistent root password

Aaron Swartz <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:47:21 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Package: e2fsprogs

If you have a disk with errors and you boot off of LNX-BBC 2.1, it will 
try to mount the disk and, seeing it has errors, fsck and then complain 
that it needs a manual fsck and ask for the root password. Of course, 
there is no root password, so whatever you type it replies "Login 
incorrect."

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