[TAG] Boot-time errors

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Hey, Gang.

I'm not sure of exactly what's going on, but in the last couple of
months, every time I've done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I've had major
problems. This time, it doesn't seem as bad as it did when I first saw
it - but it certainly looks really ugly.

The problem is that, every time I boot this laptop, I get a series of
error messages, one for each of my partitions other than '/' and swap:

``
Superblock last mount time is in the future
''

along with the standard "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY",
etc. It's easy enough to fix (temporarily), although it takes up a chunk
of time:

``
for n in 3 5 6 7 8; do umount /dev/hda$n; fsck /dev/hda$n; done
''

'fsck' reports that the superblock date is, indeed, in the future, and
asks me if I want to repair it. After a number of repetitions of this,
all the partitions are marked good to go, and I can boot... until the
next time that I shut down, when the whole process starts all over
again.

Googling for the 'superblock... future' message produces no hits. Has
anybody run into this before? Any ideas on how to fix it? I find that
I'm rather annoyed at the recent drop in quality control at Debian - at
least that's what it seems like from here.


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