fsck problem on updating to F10

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 14:49 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Patrick O'Callaghan (pocallaghan at gmail.com) said:
> >>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> Patrick O'Callaghan (pocallaghan at gmail.com) said:
> >>>>> I updated my F9 to F10 from the Preview DVD, but on rebooting after
> >>>>> updatig I get a complaint about an fsck error and am then offered a
> >>>>> shell to fix it. Trouble is, I can' t figure out what the error is.
> >>>>> fsck from the shell shows no errors. Ditto fsck from the DVD in rescue
> >>>>> mode. /var/log/* has no lines containing 'fsck' .
> >>>> Can you just transcribe the error and post it?
> >>> If it persists after the update I'll do that, however IIRC it didn't
> >>> seem to contain anything useful, such as a filesystem or device name.
> >>> To paraphrase, it was along the lines of "There was an fsck error and
> >>> here's a shell so you can fix it. Type Ctrl-D to reboot when you're
> >>> done".
> >> There should at least be *some* error above that, whether from fsck, mount,
> >> or otherwise.
> > 
> > If there is it flies past too fast to be seen and isn't logged
> > anywhere. After 335 package updates, the error persists. This is the
> > exact text as it appears on the screen:
> > 
> > *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> > *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> > *** when you leave the shell.
> > Give root password for maintenance
> > (or type Control-D to continue):
> 
> Can you do that, then, and run fsck on your filesystems manually, and
> direct the output to a file for later inspection?

I ran it manually. No errors of any kind.

However I've finally figured out what's happening (see separate post).

poc