Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-38 Severity: normal When either of RAMRUN or RAMLOCK are set to yes (supposed to mount /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs), AND /var is a separate filesystem (a good thing to do really), mount of /var/run and/or /var/lock fails, because mountkernfs.sh (which mounts the two in this case) tries to mount them before /var is mounted, hence /var is still empty at this stage.
I wonder why this RAMRUN and RAMLOCK, (and other stuff like /sys, /proc, /proc/bus/usb, /dev/shm etc) is ever introduced in the first place. Why not mount it the traditional way, listing them in /etc/fstab, which is designed to do the Right Way? Ok ok, /proc & /sys are special, because many things will break before mountall.sh is called to mount all filesystems. So I'm shutting up here. Back to the original issue. I see many griefs in initscripts to preserve the two mentioned filesystems over mounting of /var. So I suppose (and it seems I'm right) that making empty /var/run and /var/lock on the root filesystem should work (the question is how to do that without booting off the rescue CD, but that's another question, and I for one know several answers, but it's beyong an average user expirience). Shouldn't all this grief be removed and regular /etc/fstab be used instead for things like /var/run and /var/lock ? Thanks. /mjt -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-i686smp Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R) Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprogs 1.37-2sarge1 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mount 2.12r-19 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]