On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:12:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >Am 17.10.2015 um 17:46 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 17.10.2015 um 00:53 schrieb Ilya Sukhanov: >>> Package: systemd >>> Version: 227-2 >>> Severity: grave >>> >>> System freezes at boot with "/etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing >>> to /proc/self/mounts..." >>> >>> To reproduce install debian from stretch_di_alpha3 amd64 image (used > >> Sounds like a bug in debian-installer. It shouldn't setup /etc/mtab as >> real file. > >Fwiw, the problem is reproducible. So, d-i does indeed create /etc/mtab >as a real file.
I've just committed a fix for that in d-i. >Martin, I guess there is some value in keeping that hard freeze for now, >which should help us identify such faulty software. > >I wouldn't release stretch with that behaviour, but having it in >stretch/sid for a while is probably ok. Right now, it's going to stop people from being able to install stretch at all. Please take out this retarded mis-feature. By all means, complain and warn about the problem, but hanging hard is just not helpful for our users here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html