[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#872039: initscripts: umountfs leaves /var mounted (rw)

[Ben Hutchings]

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On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 19:46:35 +0200
Elrond <elrond+bugs.debian.org at samba-tng.org> wrote:
> Package: initscripts
> Version: 2.88dsf-59.9
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Reason for Severity=serious: This leaves /var (or other
> filesystems) in an unclean state, so could possibly lead to
> data loss!
> (not to mention the lengthy fsck at every boot.)

Sorry for the late response.  I'm not actually a sysvinit maintainer
but this bug is my fault and I only just noticed it.

Are you using a custom kernel without an initramfs?

[...]
> I propose to undo the sed changes and include /usr in the
> specific list of filesystems to exclude from unmounting.
> 
> See attached patch.

This patch makes sense to me.

> Can you please try to include a fix in the next point
> release of stretch?

Depending on which systems are affected, this might merit inclusion in
a point release.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken

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