Comment 17 for bug 7490

Message-Id: <1095087866l.13569l.2l@traveler>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:04:26 +0000
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <email address hidden>
To: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, Aurelien Jarno
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: 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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> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:43:45PM +0300, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
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> > 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 an=
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> > 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.
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> > 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 Kriau=C4=8Di=C5=ABnas <email address hidden> Jabber ID: <email address hidden>=
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