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  1. Bug #7490
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 7490

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In , Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels) wrote : Re: Bug#266361: /sys isn't mounted after installing new initscripts

severity 266361 minor
tags 266361 +moreinfo
thanks

On 2004.09.13 14:49, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> It seems initscripts has problems with mounting /sys :

It doesn't AFAIK. The user must have changed something locally
on his system - initscripts DOES correctly mount /sys at
startup. It does on all systems I'm using here, and there have
been no other complaints ....

Please check if /etc/rcS.d/S02mountvirtfs is present, points
to /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs, and that mountvirtfs is at least
version 2.85-23.

Or maybe I misunderstand and the user upgraded from a broken
initscripts that apparently didn't mount /sys to a fixed one,
without rebooting ? In that case, stuff like that happens when
running "unstable". That's why it's called that. Things break
now and then .. all versions in "stable" and "testing" are OK.

> ----- Forwarded message from Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden> -----
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> From: Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>
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> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:43:45PM +0300, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> [...]
> > I have sysvinit version 2.86-1 installed, but /sys dicectory is still
> > emply in my system. I'm using 2.6.5-1-k7 kernel image.
> > Maybe problem is in initscripts (version 2.86-1) package, I think
> > postinst of sysvinit and initscripts should check if /sys is mounted and
> > if not - then call "/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs start", because I got
> > working /sys and lm-sensors when I did:

No it shouldn't just go out and mount /sys without asking.

> > dubrava:/home/mantas# /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs start
> > dubrava:/home/mantas# ls /sys/
> > block bus class devices firmware power
> > dubrava:/home/mantas# /etc/init.d/lm-sensors start
> > Setting sensors limits: done.
> >
> > Should I report bug agains sysvinit and/or initscripts ?
> When you first reported the bug, I clone that bug to initscripts.
> However, as you don't answer, the maintainer of initscripts has close
> it. So, please reopen bug #266361 and don't complain to lm-sensors.
>
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> Good luck,
> Mantas Kriaučiūnas <email address hidden> Jabber ID: <email address hidden>
> Public organization "Open Source for Lithuania" - www.akl.lt
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