[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#623174: mountkernfs.sh unconditionally mounts /run

[rleigh]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:55:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 10.05.2011 11:39, schrieb rleigh:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:11:20AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Am 09.05.2011 23:40, schrieb rleigh:
> >>> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:56:39PM +0200, chris h wrote:
> >>>> with initscripts 2.88dsf-13.5 from exp and initramfs-tools maks/run
> >>>> there's a new warning during boot:
> >>>> mount: can't find /run in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >>>>
> >>>> Apparently this is caused by mountkernfs.sh which assumes that it has
> >>>> the authority to mount /run (line 42).
> >>>> With the newer initramfs-tools /run gets moved by the initramfs' init,
> >>>> but this doesn't make it into the mtab, causing the warning.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm unsure what the correct solution would be...
> >>>
> >>> You need the patch from #621803 applying to the maks/run branch?
> >>> Or was this already applied?
> >>
> >> I can reproduce this issue. I used sysvinit/initscripts 2.88dsf-13.5 and built
> >> initramfs-tools from the maks/run branch (a6167ad4d32f56db89989e40d1863887c199cc61)
> >>
> >> During boot I get
> >> mount: can't find /run in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >> mount: can't find /sys in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >>
> >> and as a consequence
> >> startpar: service(s) returned failure: mountkernfs.sh ... failed!

Could you retry with

http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/sysvinit_2.88dsf-13.6.dsc
http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/initscripts_2.88dsf-13.6_amd64.deb

Works for me, but since I don't use startpar it would be good to
have that confirmed to work as well.  Chris, could you also try
this out please?

> > The solution here, if this is the problem, is to comment out the
> > remounting until we have eliminated /etc/mtab by symlinking to
> > /proc/mounts.
> 
> When symlinking /etc/mtab → /proc/self/mounts, I get
> Mounting local filesystems... failed

I've spent some time looking at this, and it's definitely a more
general issue--I see it for all LVM filesystems, even when the
entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab are identical other than
the opts/passno.  The fsname/dir/type are all identical.

I'll need to look more carefully at what's going on, but could well
be a mount bug given the identical contents.

It would be ideal if we could upgrade to a current version of mount,
such as 2.19 (2.19.1 is due out soon).
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/util-linux-2.19.tar.bz2
This will work much better with /proc/mounts when built with libmount
support enabled, and it's now actively used with /etc/mtab being a
symlink (with Fedora/systemd) so it's likely that this sort of niggle
when using /proc/mounts will have been fixed.
Given that util-linux is not exactly kept up-to-date in Debian, if
anyone wanted to package and NMU it, that would be another big step
to getting systemd and read-only root working in Debian.  With this
version in Debian, we can finally make the switch to having /etc/mtab
as a symlink.


Regards,
Roger

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