[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#331397: initscripts: proc filesystem being already mounted indeed the cause of the failure

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-4
Followup-For: Bug #331397

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Upon closer inspection, this also seems to be the cause of the error I had been mentioning to Petter over IRC.

Making the script not merge stdout and stderr to /dev/null confirmed it with a message "proc filesystem already 
mounted".  Then, making the script print mount's return code gave me 32 (mount failure).  I wonder why the fact that a 
filesystem is already mounted is interpreted as a failure; it seems to me that 0 or 64 might be a better return code.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-imac
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.2.1-2.1  The GNU core utilities
ii  dpkg                          1.13.11    package maintenance system for Deb
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.38-2     ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  lsb-base                      3.0-11     Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  util-linux                    2.12p-8    Miscellaneous system utilities

initscripts recommends no packages.

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