Bug#802025: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing to /proc/self/mounts

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.10.2015 um 00:53 schrieb Ilya Sukhanov:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 227-2
> Severity: grave
> 
> System freezes at boot with "/etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing
> to /proc/self/mounts..."
> 
> To reproduce install debian from stretch_di_alpha3 amd64 image (used
> unofficial firmware variety [1] but suspect this does not matter). Quite
> vanilla installation with no extra software selected but did customize
> disk image layout. Its possible that this is really an installer bug,
> but its manifested through systemd package.
> 
> Downgrading to libsystemd0 and systemd packages to 226-4 resolves the
> issue and makes machine bootable. An inelegant but effective workaround.
> 
> There is a parallel discussion of this issue on the systemd github
> project [2]. Although there is a mistake; 215-17+deb8u2 is actually
> 227-2.
> 
> Marking as grave as issue renders debian installation unusable.

Sounds like a bug in debian-installer. It shouldn't setup /etc/mtab as
real file.




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