On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:52:40PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Apparently initscripts assumes the existance of tmpfs: > Yes, it does, to mount /dev/shm/ during boot among other things, and > recently to mount /lib/init/rw/. Is your kernel missing tmpfs > support?
Yes. | zgrep TMPFS /proc/config.gz | # CONFIG_TMPFS is not set > If this is the case, do this patch work? How is /dev/shm/ > mounted on your system if tmpfs isn't supported? It's not mounted at all: | muaddib:/usr/src# zgrep SHM /proc/config.gz | CONFIG_SHMEM=y | # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set | muaddib:/usr/src# grep shm /etc/fstab | muaddib:/usr/src# > Index: debian/initscripts/postinst > =================================================================== > if dpkg --compare-versions "$PREV_VER" lt "2.86.ds1-27" \ > + && grep -E -qs "tmpfs\$" /proc/filesystems \ > && [ ! -f /lib/init/rw/.ramfs ] && ! chrooted ; then > [ -f /etc/default/tmpfs ] && . /etc/default/tmpfs With that patch sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/initscripts.postinst is running without complains, but note that I've commented the mount line out after I reported that bug. -- Ciao... // Fon: 0381-2744150 Ingo \X/ SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg pubkey: http://www.juergensmann.de/ij/public_key.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]