The normal fsck check before booting has hung up on two occasions in the last couple of days. Probably the first fsck checks since a fresh install.

My system: dual boot Dell Dimension 8300
first hard drive - sda - Windows XP
second hard drive - sdb - Ubuntu 9.10, separate /home partition

The second hard drive was a new larger drive to replace the original smaller drive. I did a fresh install of 9.10 on that drive.

after the fsck hang up, both times, I did a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to kill the process and boot.

The fsck message is as follows during the second fsck check

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16

dev/sdb1 : clean xx/xx files xx/xx blocks
dev/sdb5 : clean xx/xx files xx/xx blocks (check in 4 mounts)
modem-manager: Loaded Plugin: Huawei
modem-manager: Loaden Plugin: Option High-Speed

(there were about 10 of these and then)

modem-manager (tty S1) opening serial device .....

And this is where it hung up for almost one hour before I stopped fsck

Nothing like this ever happened in previous versions - 9.04, etc.

Anyone else have this happen?

Any input to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.

From what you have posted, it seems to be an issue with your modem not fsck.

I thought about that, but didn't exactly know what to do. I've never used the 56k PCI Data/Fax Modem that came with the system, since I always used an external broadband modem. I'm assuming that's the device the "tty" hangup occurs in fsck.

I'm at a brick wall on how to avoid this hangup in fsck. It appears my partitions are all o.k. according to the messages.

If you don't use the modem, can you not just remove it? If it's built in see if you can disable it in bios.

Thanks, when I have the time, I'll remove the card.