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Bug 262467 - baselayout-1: /sbin/rc should check if /proc and /sys are pre-mounted
Summary: baselayout-1: /sbin/rc should check if /proc and /sys are pre-mounted
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2009-03-14 20:13 UTC by William Pitcock
Modified: 2009-10-11 01:09 UTC (History)
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Description William Pitcock 2009-03-14 20:13:31 UTC 
When running Gentoo on kernels which provide initrds that premount /proc and /sys (like Debian and Redhat kernels do), the boot process fails as mount exits with non-zero status due to the filesystems already being mounted.

Right now in ApplianceKit, we are patching /sbin/rc to drop the 'try' keyword before those mount commands, so that the boot process may continue correctly.

Please add checks to ensure that that the filesystems are not re-mounted. Checking for presence of /proc/mounts and then grepping it for /sys should do just fine here. Alternatively, you could check for /sys/kernel, that's not going to go away any time soon.

Reproducible: Always

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