tmpfs mounts prevent wicd daemon from starting

[Mart]

I believe I have identified what is preventing the Wicd daemon from starting for a lot of people that use the Eee PC with tmpfs mounts, and possibly other devices. Adding the following lines to /etc/fstab on my Eee PC 900 running Ubuntu (as recommended at http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/index.php5?title=How_to:_Reduce_Disk_Writes_to_Prolong_the_Life_of_your_Flash_Drive), prevents the Wicd daemon from starting correctly. I have also encountered similar bugs related to tmpfs in other OSS which furthermore confirms my suspicion.

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /var/log/apt tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0

[Mart (martin-eshock)]

Further testing has narrowed the problem down to this particular line:

tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0

[Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)]

We've fixed this in trunk in SVN. Look for in in 1.5.2.