[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#653126: /etc/mtab symlink to /proc/mounts breaks autofs

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:09:18AM +0000, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> While I suppose technically this could be construed to be a "critical"
> bug ... I'm not gonna call it that, because the autofs package is
> pretty much a dead man walking at this point anyway (hell, it didn't
> even make it into Squeeze, but it's still in unstable).

It's source appears to be in unstable, but not the binaries.  I'll
put a versioned Breaks on e.g. << 5 to allow for future renaming
of autofs >= 5 to autofs.

> So, in
> relation to bug 494001 (the switch of /etc/mtab to a symlink to
> /proc/mounts) this configuration makes autofs (*not* autofs5 mind
> you... that works fine) fail in a rather obnoxious manner.  This is
> actually a known issue with autofs, although people are always
> rediscovering it the hard way, and I imagine a few more will find out
> shortly if they haven't already.  See bugs 464436, 399614, 520095, and
> for added flavor 588675 (which may not look related, but it kinda is
> because /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts look really different when it comes
> the root volume, and I didn't see that discussion brought up in
> 494001, but it may bear thinking about as it's a potential source of
> excitement).  Anyway, my suggestion is to just add autofs to
> initscript's Breaks: list and call it a day.

Looks fairly abandoned, so I guess this is about the most
realistic solution TBH.  I'll add the Breaks.


Regards,
Roger

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