[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#677097: mountall-bootclean.sh nukes udev's data in /run

[Jakub Wilk]

* Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net>, 2012-11-08, 22:32:
>>>Would it be possible to debug this in a bit more detail on your 
>>>system? /lib/init/bootclean.sh's clean function must be failing all 
>>>these checks:
>>
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:30 2012: Cleaning up temporary files....
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:30 2012: BEFORE BOOTMISC: [ .tmpfs dhclient.eth0.pid initctl initramfs lock mount network sendsigs.omit.d shm udev utmp ]
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:30 2012: AFTER BOOTMISC: [ dhclient.eth0.pid initctl initramfs lock mount network sendsigs.omit.d shm udev utmp ]
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:31 2012: Setting up X socket directories... /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix.
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:31 2012: BEFORE MOUNTALL-BOOTCLEAN: [ dhclient.eth0.pid initctl initramfs lock mount network sendsigs.omit.d shm udev utmp ]
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:31 2012: Cleaning up temporary files... /tmp /lib/init/rw /run /run/lock /run/shm.
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:31 2012: AFTER MOUNTALL-BOOTCLEAN: [ .clean initramfs lock mount network sendsigs.omit.d shm udev utmp ]
>>Thu Nov  8 12:17:31 2012: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
>>
>>(This is on a VM on which I had to impose a sleep to make the bug 
>>trigger. However, the bug also triggers naturally on my development 
>>machine, which I can't reboot right know, though I'm pretty sure the 
>>cause is the same there.)
>>
>>As I understand it, bootmisc is supposed to be run _after_ 
>>mountall-bootclean, though this order doesn't seem to be enforced in 
>>any way.
>
>So it's looking like we may be just missing a dependency here, so the 
>bug would be present all the time, but the parallelism is exposing it 
>more frequently.
>
>Would be worth checking the /etc/init.d/depend files and running 
>/usr/share/insserv/make-testsuite to see exactly where bootmisc is 
>being placed in the depdendency graph. The intention is that this won't 
>run until after mountall-bootclean. I /think/ that the $remote_fs is 
>supposed to ensure this, but this might not be good enough.

Note that $remotefs contains only mountnfs-bootclean, not 
mountall-bootclean.

>Maybe we need to add mountall_bootclean to $local_fs,

s/_/-/, this fixed the bug for me.

>or add X-Start-Before: bootmish.sh to mountall_bootclean.

With s/mish.sh/misc/, this works for me too. Thanks.

-- 
Jakub Wilk