[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#669949: Found the answer

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:10:37PM -0700, Dean Loros wrote:
> Found it---In my system /run was a symlink to /var/run--So my guess is that
> the mount script was going "crazy" & giving up...I remember about a year or
> so ago there was a problem with /var/run & /run & the "fix" was linking
> /run to /var/run....I wonder how many systems are still running this
> way.....  I recreated the /run folder & populated it with the contents of
> /var/run & now things work as expected...  Interesting little puzzle--glad
> to have found the answer.

Thanks for all the investigation.  To be honest, I'm surprised that
this makes a difference.  Though if you had a separately-mounted /var,
I suspect it would have been rather more broken (/run couldn't be
mounted, or it would be later hidden on mounting /var).

I'll take a look and see what might have caused the change in
behaviour, and now you've identified the cause, I'll see if I can
reproduce it on a virtualbox VM.


Thanks,
Roger

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