On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 10:59 AM Jörg Sommer via lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
>
> The old mtab pointed to /proc/mounts which itself is a symlink. Systemd
> therefore tries to replace it with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, but
> fails
> on a read-only rootfs:
>
>     systemd-tmpfiles: symlink(../proc/self/mounts, /etc/mtab) failed:
> Read-only file system
>
> Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> index d4d777b485..aafc0aa923 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ do_install () {
>         install -m 0644 ${S}/host.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/host.conf
>         install -m 0644 ${S}/motd ${D}${sysconfdir}/motd
>
> -       ln -sf /proc/mounts ${D}${sysconfdir}/mtab
> +       ln -sf ../proc/self/mounts ${D}${sysconfdir}/mtab
>

This should be absolute /proc/self/mounts otherwise it's assuming
sysconfdir is only one directory level deep, and AFIACT, there is no reason
for it to be absolute


>
>         # deal with hostname
>         if [ "${hostname}" ]; then
> --
> 2.53.0
>
>
> 
>
>
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