Tries to create 'volatile' directory on read-only filesystem

[Matt Zimmerman]

During boot (without usplash) I noticed that /etc/init.d/linux-restricted-modules-common is run very early (S07 in runlevel S), and prints a "Read-only file system" error regarding /lib/modules/`uname -r`/volatile. It probably should be shipped with one of the kernel packages so that it doesn't need to be created on the fly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 1 19:17:07 2008
Dependencies: binutils-static 2.18.50.20080707-0ubuntu1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.26-5.11
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/surfraw
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: linux-restricted-modules
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Matt - In Hardy the folder isn't shipped with any package as such. The linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-xx-generic postinst script calls /sbin/lrm-manager, which creates the folder on install.

This doesn't appear to be the case in the postinst script for linux-restricted-modules-2.6.26-5-generic

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This should do it

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Actually, it also needs to remove the directory on removal

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 03:50:42PM -0000, Chris Coulson wrote:
> Actually, it also needs to remove the directory on removal
>
> ** Attachment added: "fix-create-volatile-on-install.patch"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16495736/fix-create-volatile-on-install.patch

Thanks for the patch...I'm certain it used to run lrm-manager from postinst
before; I wonder why that was removed?

--
 - mdz

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Fixed in git. I did it slightly different. Since we call lrm-manager in postinst, no reason to call depmod directly. Also added update-initramfs call to lrm-manager.