[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386894: Pcmcia wireless lan broken - /dev/shm/network not created

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Lars Doelle]
> perhaps related to the bug #386347, something different happend,
> also related to /dev/shm.

Actually, it is probably the same as bug #386500.

> Now the /dev/shm/network directory is not longer created, making the
> links dangling ends.

Sound to me like some init.d script isn't being executed any more.

In your case, I believe the problem is that the ifupdown init.d script
are missing in /etc/rcS.d/.  They should look like this:

  % ls -l /etc/rc*/S*ifupdown*
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Sep  6 19:56 /etc/rcS.d/S18ifupdown-clean -> ../init.d/ifupdown-clean
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep  6 19:56 /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown -> ../init.d/ifupdown
  %

To fix it, please follow the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit/NEWS.Debian.gz for version 2.86.ds1-20 or
newer. :)

If it work, please let us know, so we can merge this bug into #386500
and close it.

But the use of /dev/shm/ to store state information is really a bug in
the scripts using it.  /dev/shm/ is only to be used by the
shm_open()-class of functions.  Every other use of that tmpfs is a
bug.  This is part of the reason why we changed the privileges for
that file system.  But that should be the topic for another bug
against ifupdown and friends. :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen