[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#851446: mkdir: cannot create directory `/run/shm': File exists

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 at 20:44:49 +0200, Simó Albert i Beltran wrote:
> I found the same issue upgrading a VPS from wheezy to jessie with the
> version 2.88dsf-59.

Please don't reopen old bug reports, even if the symptoms are the same,
unless you are absolutely sure the root cause is also the same.
It usually just causes confusion - it's quite common to see several
bugs cause the same superficial symptoms, and if they all share one
bug number it's hard to track which ones are fixed in which versions.

We can merge bugs if they are duplicates, and that doesn't result in
ambiguity. I've "cloned" this bug to give you a new bug number,
#851446, as though you had opened a new one bug yourself. Please
send any further information to that bug number.

> $ ls -l /dev/shm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 28  2014 /dev/shm -> /run/shm
> $ ls -l /run/shm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 13  2015 /run/shm -> /dev/shm
> $ mountpoint /dev
> /dev is not a mountpoint

Obviously, that really shouldn't happen. I don't suppose you have
backups or some other record that would indicate what state the VPS
was in before the upgrade? Otherwise it's probably going to be
difficult to reproduce this issue.

    S