/var on separate partition breaks networking

[Rolf Leggewie]

Hi,

I believe this might be an upstart bug since it relates to booting the computer and it occurred roughly around the time when I upgraded to upstart from syvinit, I believe. I might be that this is a similar issue to bug 59203 in that /var/run and /var/lock are not accessible at boot time.

Well, the issue is that when I move /var off to a separate partition, lo AKA 127.0.0.1 would stop comping up which of course breaks all kinds of things among others login to gdm and nfs. It seems that /var/run and /var/lock where not accessible as it was necessary. Creating /var/run and /var/lock on the root partition (instead of having /run and /lock on the /var partition) seems to have worked around the issue.

I run edgy.

Regards

Rolf

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Here are the files being created under /var on the root partition instead of the var partition where they should be. /var/run and /var/lock where created by me as stated above. I got this information by mounting the root partition a second time at /tmp/hda5 and then doing a find.

$ sudo find /tmp/hda5/var/ -exec file {} \;
/tmp/hda5/var/: directory
/tmp/hda5/var/lock: directory
/tmp/hda5/var/lock/lvm: directory
/tmp/hda5/var/lock/evms-engine: data
/tmp/hda5/var/run: directory