Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mountall
Hi! I discovered this problem when an improper shut down of the server before all clients had shutdown on an LTSP system. It seems that the client when it logs out deletes files in /tmp that confuse it when booting again(that is another bug report). However, this can cause problems with /tmp filling up the hard drive with unneeded files that should otherwise be deleted on boot. Ubuntu forum user tall-male also discovered this. See his post here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9558012#post9558012 Here is a summary and fix: The automatic cleanup of /tmp at boot time is not working. It wasn't working in Ubuntu 9.10, neither in the new 10.04. The problem seems to happen using a separate /usr partition. According to /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf, cleaning starts when /tmp is mounted: start on mounted MOUNTPOINT=/tmp However, the script needs /usr/bin/find to cleanup /tmp. Cleanup is failing since /usr is not there (is not mounted) when cleaning starts. Therefor, /tmp is never cleaned Changing it to: start on local-filesystems solved the problem. The cleanup is only started when all local file systems are mounted. I can confirm that this change does work. I filed this report first against upstart itself not knowing what package it should be filed against. https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/602659 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: mountall 2.15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jul 7 14:52:26 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: mountall ** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid -- Upstart job to clean /tmp does not run when /usr is on a seperate partion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
