Bug 157283 – awk error on boot

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luis Diaz 2006-12-05 20:00:42 UTC]

on boot AWK prints an error:
awk: (FILENAME=/proc/mounts FNR=6) Error writing to standard output (Invalid argument)

for some details please look here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-429204-highlight-mtab+awk.html

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-12-06 16:35:06 UTC]

no real info here ... do not post links to forums, post all relevant information into this bug report

`emerge info` and the actual boot up output would be a good start

[Comment 2 Aad-Jan Couwenhoven 2009-04-28 09:07:45 UTC]

The error seems to come from a softlink of /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. I have no idea where this came from. An easy fix is to remerge baselayout. This makes the error go away and the root (/) fs is mounted as it should.