Wow that was quick and painless! Thanks! I still had my fstab reading
tmpfs.../dev/shm which I suppose is how it
used to work back in 6.8. I'll update the bootscripts too.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>
To: Christian Gardner <christian_gard...@yahoo.co.uk>; LFS Support List
<lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org>
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 22:12
Subject: Re: Booting up - mountvirtfs, mountfs, /run/var/bootlog problems
Christian Gardner wrote:
>
> So I've managed to build an LFS7 system - yay me - and it boots and I
> can use it. But there's lots of error messages. There seem to be
> around seven reports (possibly one per startup script?) that it can't
> find /run/var/bootlog, and when I look in there, not only is there no
> bootlog, there's no 'var' dir in run at all. Also there are two
> points at which I am told I 'should not be seeing this message, an
> unforeseen error occurred', and I have to hit enter to continue.
> These seem to occur while the scripts S00mountvirtfs and S40mountfs
> are running. I get a similar bunch of errors (but without the fun
> interactive element) when I shut down.
>
> Hope someone can help. If you need more detail you'll have to explain
> to me how to save all those messages I see, or where to look for them
> if they're logged somewhere.
The first script to run is mountvirtfs. The first thing that bootscript does
is:
# Make sure /run/var is available before logging any messages
mkdir -p /run
mount -n /run || failed=1
mkdir -p /run/{var,lock,shm}
I suspect that you do not have /etc/fstab configured correctly. You should
have:
tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults 0 0
Take another look at Section 8.2 - Creating the /etc/fstab File
By the way, we've made some improvements and fixed some bugs in the
bootscripts. Try reinstalling them using
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/lfs-bootscripts-20111114.tar.bz2
-- Bruce
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