Bug#737759: marked as done (hurd: Add init.d script to create /var/run/mtab)
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regarding hurd: Add init.d script to create /var/run/mtab
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: hurd
Version: 1:0.5.git20140203-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
At the moment in unstable when booting Hurd using sysvinit, df and
friends do not work because /var/run/mtab do not exist. It should point
to /proc/mounts, and this is done in /etc/hurd/rc when not booting using
sysvinit.
Instead of creating the symlink in /etc/hurd/rc, I suggest to create a
new init.d script to create this symlink, and drop the code from
/etc/hurd/rc. The following script is tested and found to be working
well. It creates /run/mtab because /var/run is a symlink to /run.
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: hurd-mtab
# Required-Start:mountkernfs
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Create /run/mtab -> /proc/mount symlink on Hurd
### END INIT INFO
# Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/sbin:/bin
# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh
# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present
# and status_of_proc is working.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_action_begin_msg "Creating /run/mtab
symlink"
ln -s /proc/mount /run/mtab
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_action_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_action_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop|restart|force-reload|status)
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
:
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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--- Begin Message ---
[Samuel Thibault]
> AIUI, now that we have /etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts, tools
> are happy already.
Right. Then I close this issue to get it out of my list of open issues
to track.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen--- End Message ---
Re: Ideal Hardware for Hurd ?
On 06/26/2017 07:33 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Patrick, on dim. 25 juin 2017 11:56:12 -0400, wrote: As a side note, does anyone think that Hurd might be stable and production ready in 1-2 years? There's very little probability that what you call "stable and production ready" (even if I'm really unsure what level you are meaning here) will be achieved in 1-2 years. Unless much more energy is poured into it than there is currently. Samuel Hi Samuel Thanks for answering my posts. It's okay if it will not be ready for really critical work anytime soon, I very much appreciate the hard work that has and is going into it. Hopefully I can pour energy into it someday soon but I will have to catch up for a year or so. Merci-Patrick
Re: Ideal Hardware for Hurd ?
Patrick, on dim. 25 juin 2017 11:56:12 -0400, wrote: > As a side note, does anyone think that Hurd might be stable and production > ready in 1-2 years? There's very little probability that what you call "stable and production ready" (even if I'm really unsure what level you are meaning here) will be achieved in 1-2 years. Unless much more energy is poured into it than there is currently. Samuel
Re: Missing mtab
Narcis Garcia, on dim. 25 juin 2017 09:44:07 +0200, wrote: > A Debian-live-Hurd could help in this situations, to perform a proper > grub-install in this situation. I don't think there is any grub issue here. > I don't know if Debian-live-Linux can damage installation with same action. I don't know. That's probably really not easy to do. To get the parameters right, usually you just run grub-installer from a chroot session, but you can't do that here. That said you can just use the hurd debian installer as a rescue disk to do the same. Samuel
Re: Missing mtab
Patrick, on sam. 24 juin 2017 18:10:48 -0400, wrote: > Now that I am booting up the installed system I am getting errors about > /dev/hd0s1 having errors and missing mtab. I am now at a rescue shell. A screenshot would be way better for us to understand what happens than vague sentences :) The missing mtab thing is probably just a warning, and the real problem is the errors on hd0s1, which you just need to fix by running e2fsck by hand from the rescue shell. > P.S this is an old laptop that could have bad sectors. I was able to install > Minix 3 and Xubuntu on it but I am not 100% confident of it. Bad sectors are really a bad thing. To avoid them, I'd advise to use a rescue disk to run badblocks and then pass the result to "mke2fs -o hurd", and then run the installer and make it use the already-formated volumes instead of reformating them. Samuel
