Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.10 Tags: patch Hi,
if a system is using /run then /dev/shm is a symlink pointing to /run/shm and ifupdowns initscript will fail to create /etc/network/run What happens is /etc/network/run is a symlink to /dev/shm/network so the initscript will try to use its myreadlink() function to find the target. myreadlink() however will return that the target is /dev/shm/network and so when the initscript attempts to "mkdir -p /dev/shm/network" it will fail with: mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/shm': File exists This is because /dev/shm is now a symlink to /run/shm and myreadlink() does not handle dereferencing the nested symlink. The attached patch makes myreadlink() recognise when it has found a nested symlink and restart it's main loop again to dereference it resulting in it calling "mkdir -p /run/shm/network" which will work as expected. I hope this helps. Thanks, Niall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
