reassign 765622 systemd,dracut retitle 765622 Please support /usr being in a separate partition. severity 765622 normal thanks
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Krzysztof Sobiecki wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 7.6 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > After switching to dracut from initramfs-tools and generating a new > initramfs system didn't boot up. > Systemd failed to switch to new sysroot because it didn't recognized / > as root. "/" didn't contained os-release file only a symlink to > ../usr/lib/os-release. > I have a separate / and /usr partitions so link to nowhere might be a > problem. > > To fix it I have copied /usr/lib/os-release to /etc/os-release > and system started to work as intended. > [...] So I'm being told basically that either dracut or systemd "check" that /etc/os-release is a real file before considering the filesystem is ok to switch to it, and I have to make /etc/os-release a real file so that the "check" does not fail. I think this makes no sense at all. Since /etc/os-release may be a symlink, it naturally follows that checking that /etc/os-release is a real file is no longer a good check. So, dracut and systemd maintainers (not sure who is to blame here, that's why I reassigned this to both packages), please do not abort the boot process based on the result of a check that may easily fail. Use a better check instead. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
