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

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:36:10PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I think that might have been forgotten.  I'll add this in for
the next upload.


Regards,
Roger

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