[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#757083: Migration from sysvinit to systemd: reboot fails to complete

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: tag -1 pending

On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 19:41:28 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> Control: tags -1 - patch
> 
> 
> On 31 December 2016 at 08:30, Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:21:32 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> >> Am 30.12.2016 um 22:16 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> > [...]
> >> > But, your experience appears to uncover
> >> > another bug: for some reason the sysvinit mount scripts will unmount
> >> > /usr! This is a bad idea, as the distinction between / and /usr is not
> >> > relevant anymore (because we now have initramfs), and will stop
> >> > existing after the /usr merge. The question is, why would sysvinit
> >> > unmount /usr, it probably shouldn't.
> >>
> >> Can anyone reproduce this? If so, this should probably be filed as a RC
> >> bug (*) against initscripts to not do that.
> > [...]
> >> (*) RC as in this should be fixed for stretch
> >
> > I searched through the bug reports assigned to binary packages built
> > from sysvinit source package.
> > Maybe the bug has already been reported:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/757083
> > I haven't had the time to read all the bug log carefully: does this bug
> > include the issue under discussion?
> > Maybe the severity of this bug report should be raised...
> 
> Indeed, I think it should and am now raising it, and this should really
> be fixed for stretch.
> 
> Unmounting /usr alongside other filesystems is problematic because:
> 
> 1. Commands used after that might live or use a library that lives in /usr
> 2. Is not compatible with merging / into /usr.

I've committed a fix for this in git.  Could one of the maintainers
please upload the pending changes?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct
one.

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