[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#425199: Bug#425199: Mounting local filesystems... Failed!

[Kel Modderman]

On Sunday 29 March 2009 05:44:43 Mike Hommey wrote:
> severity 425199 important
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:31:17PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > Package: initscripts
> > Version: 1.13.25
> > 
> > I get this message when I boot.  It comes from
> > /etc/init.d/mountall.sh. when it tries to mount per /etc/fstab.  By
> > commenting out lines in /etc/fstab I found that it's the line which
> > mounts the proc filesystem on /proc that is causing the problem.
> > 
> > In ubantu I found that the mountall script had: mount ... -t noproc ..
> > In other words, it doesn't try to mount proc and thus no error message.
> > When I add noproc to Debian's mountall.sh (after -t of course), the
> > "Failed!" message disappears.
> > 
> > I checked on the internet and found old instructions (not labelled
> > "old") that fstab should have a line to mount proc.  I'm using a
> > Debian from several years ago but upgrade it about once a year using
> > apt-get.  So it should be current.  But upgrading doesn't seem to modify
> > fstab (assuming that it shouldn't have a line to mount proc).
> > 
> > So a fix is needed: either use noproc or have upgrades modify
> > /etc/fstab.
> 
> I confirm the bug and the possible fixes. Obviously, adding noproc is
> the solution, here.
> 
> Note that you can still have /proc entry from an old install of Debian,
> which *did* put it there at the times it was required.
> 
> Nowadays, /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh takes care of mounting /proc, /sys,
> and other kernel filesystems, so having an entry for /proc in
> /etc/fstab has become useless.
> 
> I'd also say this is a pretty important bug, because it can hide real
> problems by systematically giving out an error when there is none.
> 
> I'd go as far as saying this should go to stable-proposed-updates.

Can someone please provide the patch against mountall.sh, preferably from
a debcheckout, so that the patch may be applied.

Thanks, Kel.