On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 18:22 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > This happens on both F20 and Rawhide with separately mounted /var. > > [ 2.839950] f20v.localdomain systemd[1]: Mounting /var... > [ 2.840310] f20v.localdomain systemd[1]: var.mount: Directory /var to > mount over is not empty, mounting anyway. > > The thing being created in the underlying /var before mounting is: > /var/lib/dhclient > > However, NetworkManager doesn't start dhclient until after the mount. But > NetworkManager itself is started up before the /var mount. So I think maybe > it's NetworkManager that's creating the folder. But I don't really know. > > Can anyone thing of a way to find out what creates this empty directory on > startup? My crude idea was to set an selinux label on /var to preventing > anything from being created there, and then see what explodes. But I'm not > quite sure what chcon command to use. Obviously I'd have to do this on /var > when nothing is mounted to it.
systemd has something that's kinda like the old sysvinit 'interactive' step-through mode: systemd.confirm_spawn=true this may help you if you can find a way to also have a console active while you're stepping through the boot. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
