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  1. Bug #643289
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Comment 22 for bug 643289

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Alexander Achenbach (xela) wrote : Re: [Bug 643289] Re: idmapd does not starts to work after system reboot

Hi Steve,

I will have a look at #811823 later on, but for a start:

We have /var mounted as a separate partition on all installations
on which we see the idmapd start-up problems. The same goes for
/usr and /tmp.

Cheers,
Alex

On 19/07/11 18:59, Steve Langasek wrote:
> iFred,
>
> I could not reproduce this problem even before I made that change to
> /etc/init{idmapd,gssd}.conf in oneiric.
>
> Something has just occurred to me, however, Could it be that the users
> seeing this bug all had /var as a separate partition? In thas case, the
> rpc_pipefs job would fail if /var isn't yet mounted, causing the idmapd
> job to *continue* in spite of the failure, and resulting in this error.
>
> In that case, it seems that my recently proposed SRU to drop the
> rpc_pipefs job may have precisely the right effect, if entirely by
> accident.
>