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

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sat Jun 30 12:36:10 UTC 2012


On 30.06.2012 14:32, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 01:50:10PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> I was of the opinion, that initscripts was supposed to clean up i.e.
>> remove /lib/init/rw on upgrades (vaguely remember out discussion about
>> rsyslog and the leftover sendsigs.omit.d directory [1]).
>> Apparently this is not the case.
> 
> We can't remove it on upgrade due to it being a mounted and in-use
> filesystem (so the mountpoint can't be rmdir'ed).
> 

Right, I vaguely remember that we discussed that, i.e. initscripts
removing /lib/init/rw during the next reboot, when it is guaranteed,
that there is no more tmpfs mounted there.



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