On 2010-03-24 10:15 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sven Joachim] >> Upon a reboot, I noticed grep complaining about an invalid back >> reference. > > Interesting. I did not show up when I tested it, so I suspect it is > related to your setup.
That's why I sent the contents of /proc/mounts. >> Running this script leads to a "grep: Invalid back reference" error >> message here. For the reference, these are the contents of >> /proc/mounts: > [...] >> | /dev/disk/by-label/\134x2f / ext2 >> rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=writeback 0 0 > > This is the only one I can imagine lead grep to look for a > back-reference (the \134 part). > > This sound a bit like the udev/mount incompatibility, where mount and > udev encode special characters differently. > > Not quite sure how to fix it properly. What kind of device is this? A normal hard disk partition, /dev/sda1. ,---- | % ls -l /dev/disk/by-label | total 0 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 13:12 \x2f -> ../../sda1 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 13:12 \x2fhome -> ../../sda8 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 13:12 \x2fusr -> ../../sda6 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 13:12 \x2fusr\x2flocal -> ../../sda7 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 13:12 \x2fvar -> ../../sda5 | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 13:12 swap -> ../../sda2 `---- > How can I reproduce the setup leading to such strange device name? Create a label "/" for your root filesystem, e.g. with "e2label /dev/root /", and reboot with "root=LABEL=/" in the kernel commandline. Sven _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
