Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-32 Severity: important Tags: patch After the transition to /run/shm from its previous location at /dev/shm, a symlink was created for compatibility reasons: /dev/shm -> /run/shm
In this configuration Oracle Database 11g XE refuses to start with the following error message: ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system Bind mounting /run/shm to /dev/shm does the trick: Oracle starts properly. Oracle Database XE is not in Debian, but there could be other packages I'm unaware of that also suffer from /dev/shm being a symlink. A quick patch to make /dev/shm be bind mount of /run/shm is attached. It would be inevitable better to allow users to configure this behavior, but I'm not sure if there is already a file where this configuration option could be added. If you could point me to the right place I would be happy to patch this to be configurable leaving the symlinking the default behavior. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii coreutils 8.13-3.2 ii debianutils 4.3.2 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8 ii mount 2.20.1-5.2 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-32 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-32 Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1 ii psmisc 22.19-1 initscripts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
--- lib_init_mount-functions.sh.orig 2012-07-01 15:30:00.000000000 +0200 +++ /lib/init/mount-functions.sh 2012-09-03 12:36:00.138599600 +0200 @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ run_migrate () # them yet. If the user explicitly mounted a filesystem here, # it will be cleaned out, but this would happen later on when # bootclean runs in any case. - if [ ! -L "$OLD" ] && [ -d "$OLD" ] ; then + if [ ! -L "$OLD" ] && [ -d "$OLD" ] && [ "$OLD" != "/dev/shm" ] ; then rm -fr "$OLD" 2>/dev/null || true fi
