[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#909118: /proc not mounted before use

[George Taylor]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-59.9
Severity: minor

On boot:
ERROR: could not open /proc/stat: No such file or directory

Related to:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659480

Caused by /etc/init.d/rc from sysv-rc:

<code>
if ! test -e /proc/stat; then
	# startpar requires /proc/stat
	if [ "$(uname)" = "GNU/kFreeBSD" ] ; then
		mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /proc
	elif [ "$(uname)" = "GNU" ] ; then
		mount -t proc none /proc
	fi
fi
</code>

because uname only returns GNU on Hurd. When running a Linux kernel it
returns Linux and proc is not mounted, and booting without initramfs
produces the above error.

I suggest replacing elif with a simple else.