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

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:12:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>Am 17.10.2015 um 17:46 schrieb 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
>
>> Sounds like a bug in debian-installer. It shouldn't setup /etc/mtab as
>> real file.
>
>Fwiw, the problem is reproducible. So, d-i does indeed create /etc/mtab
>as a real file.

I've just committed a fix for that in d-i.

>Martin, I guess there is some value in keeping that hard freeze for now,
>which should help us identify such faulty software.
>
>I wouldn't release stretch with that behaviour, but having it in
>stretch/sid for a while is probably ok.

Right now, it's going to stop people from being able to install
stretch at all. Please take out this retarded mis-feature. By all
means, complain and warn about the problem, but hanging hard is just
not helpful for our users here.

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