Comment 29 for bug 14927

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:55:05 +1000
From: Anthony Towns <email address hidden>
To: Stefan Kluth <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#302519: ifupdown: postinst fails if /dev/shm/network/ does
 not exist

Stefan Kluth wrote:
> Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-4.12) ...
> ifupdown.postinst: Error: The canonical path of /etc/network/run could
> not be determined. Aborting.

> After googling for a few minutes I found that
> $ mkdir /dev/shm/network

I believe I had some weird, unreproducible, behaviour from
/lib/init/readlink when trying some of this stuff out; so afaics the
above should never happen, but I'm not sure it actually doesn't. The
obvious explanation would've been that /dev/shm didn't exist, let alone
/dev/shm/network, though that seems odd too.

Anyway, new ifupdown in unstable doesn't use "readlink -f", instead
having its own sh script fragment, so should work more reliably.

This bug's already closed. FYI only.

Cheers,
aj