[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#679612: return of the undead: /lib/init/rw

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:23:11AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-06-30 09:34 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> > it seems, instead of removing /lib/init/rw,
> 
> The initscripts package does not remove that directory, but you're free
> to do that yourself.  In fact, I did it months ago.

This is certainly true.

> > initscripts now forcefully creates /lib/init/rw on each boot.
> 
> Are you sure that it's not some other package's fault?  I don't see any
> code in initscripts that would create /lib/init/rw.

I just double-checked, including rebooting a current sid system in a
VM, and it's not created at boot there.  I did have an empty
/lib/init/rw[/sendsigs.omit.d] on my main system, but removing it and
rebooting did not result in it being recreated.

Do you have another package with an init script which recreates it?

The only recent change relating to /lib/init/rw is relating to
bootclean, where we clean it before mountall so that if there was any
residual data in the directory from upgrade, we clean it out to save
space.  Other than that, there have been no changes since its removal
last year.


Regards,
Roger

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