Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Thomas. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:57:53AM +, Thomas Sigurdsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > The problems/strange state persists with mtab being a symlink and then > rebooting. Mtab stays a symlink through reboots too. This is a stab in the dark, but rec

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-18 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The problems/strange state persists with mtab being a symlink and then rebooting. Mtab stays a symlink through reboots too. > I wouldn't expect the symlink to fix anything without a reboot (since > the main problem is at startup time). I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-12 Thread John Runyon
I wouldn't expect the symlink to fix anything without a reboot (since the main problem is at startup time). I'm not sure if the dbus issue is separate or not - if it is the same it seems odd that it won't start even after getting everything mounted by hand, anyway. -John Sent from my phone Tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-12 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > It seems to me the root of your problems is fsck failing because (it > thinks) the partitions are already mounted. > > Is your mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts as it "should" be? Just checked, and mtab is not a symlink. It is a plain text file. Ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-11 Thread John Runyon
It seems to me the root of your problems is fsck failing because (it thinks) the partitions are already mounted. Is your mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts as it "should" be? Thomas Sigurdsen wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >There is an html version of this mail, that al

[gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-11 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 There is an html version of this mail, that also has emerge --info and my kernel config, at: http://browniehive.net/tmp/hp-problems.html I've come to a dead end in troubleshooting this issue and turn to you for help in how to continue. The following