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

[lars.doelle at on-line.de]

Petter,

On Monday 11 September 2006 00:56, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

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

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

I ran the script you posted for the above bug.
And yes - it did. Case closed. Thanks a lot!

In fact a lot of functionality was broken, among them kde (perhaps
via famd) and the keyboard. Stuff was nicely recovered. Good job!

> 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. :)

At least i can testify that this is anything but a transparent style
of getting things done, whenever you need a witness. :)


Thanks again.
-lars