On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:46:26PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > user [email protected] > usertags run-transition > thanks > > I now transitioned and everything looks fine, buy > 1) removing the link /run -> /var/run OK
> 2) adjusting /etc/fstab to add /run and comment out /var/run /etc/fstab only needs a /run entry if you want to customise the mount options, otherwise it's automatic. > 3) going single user > 4) moving all files from /var/run -> /run > 5) replacing /var/run with a symlink to /run > 6) rebooting Looks fine to me. Note you also want to symlink /var/lock to /run/lock. > Everything looks fine now. > > In the process, I discovered a file called .run-transition in > /var/run, with the contents: > Please reboot to complete migration to tmpfs-based /run > > I moved this file as well to /run and it is gone as expected after the > reboot :-)) That's fine too. Normally that would have been cleaned up when you rebooted. For some reason I was never notified when this got reassigned to sysvinit. Possibly I missed it--less than two weeks until I have to submit my PhD thesis, so I've been somewhat preoccupied over the last few weeks! Regarding the /run vs /var/run symlinks: if the initscripts postinst thinks you're inside a chroot, it will link /run to /var/run rather than the other way around. There are a few reasons for this, it's mainly to do with initscripts not being run inside chroots which means the transition wouldn't complete if we did things the "correct" way around. This would be why it went wrong in your case. Right now, there shouldn't be any issues. A few months back, debian-installer would have caused the link to be created the wrong way around for new installs. This was fixed with the new base-files, which is now in testing. So unless you're doing things using virtualisation stuff like vservers or the like, everything should work correctly. I'm not sure about the specifics of your installation, but if it was a recent install, it could have happened then, or if you were using virtualisation. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
