Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-20 Severity: important
Upon rebooting my machine today (etch) after many weeks of uptime, the boot failed while trying to fsck the block device /tmp/rootdev. The device could not be fsck'd because my /tmp filesystem was mounted nodev. It looks to me like /tmp/rootdev might be created by /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh, and maybe the problem is related to this recent change?: --------------------------------- sysvinit (2.86.ds1-19) unstable; urgency=low ... * Rewrite checkroot.sh to not use lazy umount and a private tmpfs, and keep the tmpfs mounted on /tmp/ as long as checkroot.sh need it. It seem that fsck did not like relative device paths. (Closes: #386347, #386699) ... -- Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:12:47 +0200 --------------------------------- The problem was temporarily fixed by modifying my /etc/fstab to mount /tmp with dev. However, I do *not* think this is a suitable situation since I believe that /tmp should be mounted nodev. In either case, it seems like a bug to be depending on /tmp mounted dev, unless there is something I'm not understanding out how /tmp should be mounted. Please let me know if there's any other help or information I can provide. Thank you immeasurably for maintaining. jamie. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sysvinit depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-20 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30.28-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 1.12.26-2 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-20 System-V-like runlevel change mech sysvinit recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]