fsck -A goes into infinite loop and kills all processes

[Paul Fox]

 > Which isn't good.
 > 
 > I get "wait: No more child process?!?" a zillion times down the screen,
 > hit ctrl-c and then boom, everything dies.
 > 
 > Debugging is ..... tricky as such and I can't see anything obviously
 > wrong.

do you have strace?  try "strace -f -e execve fsck -A".  that may give
a clue as to what's being run.

paul
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