[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#677097: I know what the problem is, don't know the solution

[Alan Chandler]

On 21/06/12 20:27, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:18:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> I found the problem.  Its in /etc/init.d/mountall.sh
>>
>> This script calls the mount-functions.sh script in /lib/init
>>
>> One of the things it does is attempt to mount /run as a tmpfs and
>> just after that the udev messages I already showed started happening
>>
>> The key to this was in the boot log output where I have verbose set
>> to "YES" and the line it output was
>>
>> Thu Jun 21 18:12:43 2012: [....] Files under mount point '/run' will
>> be hidden.
> Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for /run?
>
> The first three fields *must* be
>
> tmpfs /run tmpfs
>
> or it will think the filesystem type doesn't match, and do a new
> mount rather than a remount.

I don't have an entry in /etc/fstab.

How was it supposed to get there?  I have had the same /etc/fstab as 
with installation - plus the manually editing by me last february to add 
the lvm volumes reported in the boot log.

I also notice there is an /etc/fstab.d directory, but that is empty

any way I will try adding it and rebooting after I have sent this e-mail 
to see if that sorts me out.
>
>> I tried commenting out the actual mount of /run but it meant that
>> even in recovery mode I had no keyboard, and hotpluging it in and
>> out didn't restore it. I had to use a rescue disk to recover the
>> system.  However when I did comment it out, these messages from
>> udevd stopped.
> Are you using an initramfs?  It should already be mounted if so.
> And in this situation, it should just result in a remount with
> the options from /etc/fstab.  If you're not, it should mount it
> in mountkernfs and then remount in mountall if there's an fstab
> entry.
I have an initramfs produced as standard by what ever mechanism debian 
uses.  I haven't touched it.

> This is as documented in tmpfs(5).
>
My /etc/default/tmpfs was last modified (not be me) on Jun 8 and 
contains only comments.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk