Bug 82853

Summary:	cannot mount filesystems if /usr is on different partition
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	martin mittendorfer <martin>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description martin mittendorfer 2005-02-21 11:06:45 UTC

when /usr resides on a different partition, the /etc/init.d/checkfs-script bails out, since it uses (g)awk (which depends on /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0). since /usr at that point is not yet mounted, awk cannot be loaded and the script drops into fsck. i think in 08/2004 xmlsupport was added to gawk via expat (patch).

workaround: link gawk statically or copy libexpat.so.0 from the real /usr/lib to the mountpoint (umount USERDEV /usr; mount USERDEV /mnt/tmp; mkdir /usr/lib/ -p; cp /mnt/tmp/lib/libexpat.* /usr/lib; etc.etc.) so that during bootup awk uses the copy, later on uses the real thing



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.move /usr to different partition
2.adjust /etc/fstab 
3.reboot


Actual Results:  
dropped into fsck. was flabbergasted.

Expected Results:  
performed checkfs, mounted /usr and the rest and moved on

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-21 11:08:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81793 ***