Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
I am writing this while offline, so I did not check for duplicates. Sorry if there are. I just transferred my system to a new harddrive and couldn't get /var/run to be mounted as tmpfs; /var/lock was a tmpfs, however. The problem turned out to be a missing /var/run directory on my root filesystem (/var is separate). Since mountkernfs.sh runs before /var is mounted, it mounts the tmpfs on the root filesystem, to have them later moved into /var using pre-mountall and post-mountall. /var/lock is a directory on my root filesystem, but /var/run is not. It took me a while to figure this out. Maybe /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh could make sure to be more verbose about the problem, possibly even give the opportunity of a shell so that the admin can fix the issue right there once and for all? Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii coreutils 8.1-1 GNU core utilities ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.10.2-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.16.2-0 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sysv-rc 2.87dsf-8 System-V-like runlevel change mech ii sysvinit-utils 2.87dsf-8 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti ii psmisc 22.10-1 utilities that use the proc file s initscripts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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