[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#683103: mkdir: cannot create directory `/run/shm': File exists

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Package: initscripts
> Version: 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to upgrade
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during the sid chroot dist-upgrade on harris.debian.org, initscripts
> failed to upgrade due to:
> | Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-29) ...
> | mkdir: cannot create directory `/run/shm': File exists
> | dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
> |  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  initscripts
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Not fun…

Hmm, that's due to vorlon's recent change, I think.  Is this inside
a chroot?  If so, it's this logic failing:

		# Symlink /dev/shm from /run/shm
		# Note that it's really /var/run/shm
		if mountpoint -q /dev && mountpoint -q /dev/shm; then
			compat_link /dev/shm /run/shm
		else
			[ -d /run/shm ] || mkdir -p /run/shm
			mountpoint -q /dev || compat_link /run/shm /dev/shm
		fi

What is the output of
  % ls -ld /dev /dev/shm /run /run/shm
on this system?


Thanks,
Roger

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