On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, wes wrote:
>
> It is weird that fstab shows two entries for the same mount point (/tmp).
>> However that in itself doesn't break anything.
>>
>
> Wes,
>
>   That's because tmpfs was mis-mounted.
>
> If you want to try each one individually, you can sudo umount /tmp, then
>> check mount to see if the other one still shows up, and issue a second
>> umount /tmp. Then mount -t tmpfs /tmp and see what happens.
>>
>
>   What I want to do is 'umount tmpfs', the 'mount tmpfs /dev/shm'
>
> So my conclusion based on the info provided is that you don't need to
>> change anything, and the problem with Chromium crashing is more likely
>> somewhere else.
>>
>
>   No, the issue was first reported in 2015. Same problem because tmpfs was
> not mounted on /dev/shm
>
> What sort of crash are you seeing? Do you get any errors? Have you tried
>> running Chromium from a terminal, to see if there is any interesting
>> console output?
>>
>
>   Both chromium and opera open and immediately shut down. The error is seen
> when starting chromium on a console.
>
>   If I correctly understand what you've written, I can umount and re-mount
> tmpfs without breaking anything. Correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rich
>


You're still referring to tmpfs as if it were a device. It isn't.

If there's a known issue with chromium and opera relating to something not
being mounted using tmpfs, do you have a link to a description? I tried
googling a little, but didn't find the right thing quickly.

What is the console output you get?

-wes
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