Bug 296384 – sys-fs/udev-146-r1: udev-mount.initd: don't mount /dev if it's already mounted

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ambroz Bizjak 2009-12-10 10:37:06 UTC]

The udev-mount init script always mounts /dev, even if it's already mounted. This is causing problems with sys-kernel/dracut and results in /dev/pts not being available (bug 293178). The init script should check if /dev is already mounted, and do a remount in this case (for changed mount options).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use OpenRC
2. generate an initramfs with >=sys-kernel/dracut-002-r1
3. boot with that initramfs
4. try to login into X, or open a screen session - it will fail

[Comment 1 Ambroz Bizjak 2009-12-10 10:38:52 UTC]

Created attachment 212608 [details, diff]
patch udev-mount.initd

This patch to files/147/udev-mount.initd solves the problem.

[Comment 2 Matthias Schwarzott 2009-12-13 09:36:04 UTC]

I guess you did not check which files are used by which ebuilds. udev-146-r1 that you use, does use files/136.

files/147 scripts do support using already mounted /dev.
So please emerge --sync, and then use at least udev-146-r2.

[Comment 3 Ambroz Bizjak 2009-12-13 10:15:13 UTC]

Yes, udev-146-r2 works. Sorry for the noise.