runsystem.sh checks whether /servers/socket/1 exists and creates it using settrans -c if it does not. But at this point in the boot the root filesystem is normally not writable. This patch fixes this.
* daemons/runsystem.sh: Make sure / is writable before attempting to set up pflocal. --- daemons/runsystem.sh | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemons/runsystem.sh b/daemons/runsystem.sh index 4b9334e..f4f2771 100644 --- a/daemons/runsystem.sh +++ b/daemons/runsystem.sh @@ -55,10 +55,17 @@ function singleuser () } -# See whether pflocal is setup already, and do so if not (install case) - -if ! test -e /servers/socket/1 && which settrans >/dev/null ; then - settrans -c /servers/socket/1 /hurd/pflocal +# See whether pflocal is set up already, and do so if not (install case) +# +# Normally this should be the case, but we better make sure since +# without the pflocal server, pipe(2) does not work. +if ! test -e /servers/socket/1 ; then + # The root filesystem should be read-only at this point. + if fsysopts / --update --writable ; then + settrans -c /servers/socket/1 /hurd/pflocal + else + singleuser "Failed to create /servers/socket/1." + fi fi # We expect to be started by console-run, which gives us no arguments and -- 1.7.10.4