[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#669949: Hmmmm---

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:15:19AM -0700, Dean Loros wrote:
> OK--that makes sense...I'm running the newest kernel--3.3 trunk. I'll try a
> older kernel first, as it's the easiest in the list. I think I'll do a
> line-by-line between 22.1 & 24 to really get a feel for the
> differences--everytime I revert to 22.1 the problem goes away...

I think it would be useful to test with the stock Debian kernel,
3.2.0-2, to see if you still see the problem then.  It may only
manifest with a specific kernel version perhaps.

> Quick question: are there any mounts that changes between 22.1 & 24? My
> system has been running for over a year now & I "normally" take the
> existing config instead of the developer version.

No.  At least, not the mounts themselves.  We moved the location
of the tmpfs defaults from /etc/default/rcS to
/etc/default/tmpfs.  But this should have zero impact--they are only
the default settings.

One minor detail to check is whether the filesystems mounted by
mountkernfs/mountdevsubfs are in /etc/fstab, and if they have the
"noauto" flag.  We now respect that flag if present, and skip the
mount.

Also, I may have asked before but, are you using an initramfs or
booting directly from the root filesystem?  udev has logic to
work with both; it may be that not using an initramfs is not as
well tested, and it's using a wrong path or something.


Regards,
Roger

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