[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#670106: initscripts: please ignore noauto sysfs entries in fstab

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Carsten Hey [Mon Apr 23, 2012 at 01:07:17 +0200]:
> 
> > Please ignore noauto sysfs entries in fstab.  Not mounting sysfs to /sys
> > if such a line is present in fstab leads to udev not starting.
> 
> > If this bug is not fixed, this problems will show up after upgrading to
> > Wheezy on some systems.
> [...]
> 
> FTR: According to my tests, bootstrapping wheezy with
> grml-debootstrap 0.49 fails WRT /sys mounting and bootstrapping
> whezzy with grml-debootstrap 0.50 (just released and uploaded, it
> does not add a noauto sysfs line any longer) succeeds.

So does this problem still need addressing in initscripts?  We could
certainly make it skip the noauto check for critical mountpoints like
/proc and /sys.  OTOH, if you explicitly asked for that behaviour...
we are only respecting the wishes of the admin.


Regards,
Roger

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