On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote:
> >because once another partition is mounted as /usr, then the kernel
> isn't . . . .
>
> This is probably where the rub is. They have perceived some desperate need
> to do things in / for user space while the machine has not even mounted the
> partitions.
>
> Smells of windoze thinking. "Look ma no brain". And it is caused by working
> for a monthly pay-check (not that we don't all need one off course)
OK, the quick egrep supplied at the alarming URL just checks for a few
culprits in udev. If udev rules are running stuff which accesses /usr
before it is mounted, then several alternative fixes seem simple and
obvious:
a) Add a line of code to mount /usr immediately after /, where they
are different partitions. The installer knows, and can do it.
(At the crudest level, the installer only creates a flag file in
/, which initrd checks. Then the installer needn't influence
code.)
Or
b) Fix it after it's broken: If we really want to use such a crappy
distro, then how hard is it to write a udev rule which is run
_first_, and mounts /usr.
Maybe the guys writing this stuff are paid by M$. (Or have they just
been laid off from there?)
The optimal response seems to be to abandon the distro, because
continuing to use it only encourages further efforts to swim backwards.
Erik
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