[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#422940: initscripts: usbfs not mounted anymore during system bootup

[Michael Schmitt]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38
Severity: minor

No idea what happens when, I just see after bootup usbfs is not mounted,
/proc/bus/usb is empty, usbview and such software does not show anything. As
this mounting should be done by mountkernfs I report this bug against
initscripts. Please correct me if I am wrong. for a quickfix I edited
/etc/rc.local and start the following:

if [ -e /proc/bus/usb/devices ]
        then echo "usbfs wird wieder automatisch gemountet!"|mail -s "Es is wieder da!!" mschmitt
        else mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb/
fi

this helps for sure... but I'd like to fix this issue rather than workaround
it. As I don't see any special configurations on my system related to that
thing, I believe this may / is a bug and not a missconfiguration and should be
reported. Sorry in advance if I missed something.

As a side note, without this quickfix /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab do show no
usbfs mounted.

greetings
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-8-P4 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianut 2.18                            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6    2.5-7                           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base 3.1-23.1                        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount    2.12r-19                        Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit 2.86.ds1-38                     System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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