severity 300705 important thanks Marc,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:13:15AM +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > after the last udev update my system did not come up anymore because > udev failed to start and then no partitions but / had been found... > The Problem: udev relies on /tmp to be a directory on startup. On my > System /tmp is only a symlink to /var/tmp which made udev not start. > Suggested solution: > Do not use /tmp for temporary mounts on system start or test it to be a > real directory. Maybe it would be better to create a temporary dir for > startup: > TMP="$(mktemp -d /udev-startup-XXXXXX)" > and then use $TMP to mount temp things instead of /tmp This can be trivially worked around by creating a /var/tmp directory on the root filesystem, or by making /tmp a bind mount to /var/tmp instead of a symlink. There's no justification for making this a release-critical bug in udev, as you've made changes to the base system that are not guaranteed to be supported. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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