sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.9-r1 Am running into a problem with the initscripts. I have /var defined in it's own partition. svcdir points to /var/lib/init.d When rc is running, it tries to write into svcdir, but during boot localmount has not yet ran so /var has not been mounted, resulting in various errors (errors from ln, chkfs, etc.) /var should probably be mounted in rc - sysinit
can you post the output somehow ? did previous 1.11.x versions work ? if you read /sbin/rc you'll see that /var is supposed to be mounted before $svcdir is utilized
2nd question first -- yes this did work with older versions. 1st question hmm -- since /var/log is not yet mounted, I don't have a log. Let me see if I can play around and try to capture something. Won't be till late this evening however. One possible solution is during rc (sysinit) processing, is to see if /var is in the fstab and do the checkfs/mount for it explicitly there. In fact, it might be a good idea to have a list of the different "critical" directories that are needed by rc and have them checked and mounted in rc (sysinit).
Just took a look at something... mkdir /tmp/fooroot I did a mount --bind -o ro / /tmp/fooroot and there was /tmp/fooroot/var/lib/init.d/... directory structure So... I think in addition part of the problem is: In checkroot, root gets mounted read only (and it looks like there is a path out of there were root could be left readonly) In addition /var directory that is part of the physical "root" partition gets replaced by the /var partition when it is mounted. Lots of twisty little passages. I will try to play around this evening
Created attachment 50882 [details] sep-var-boot.png ok, i'm unable to reproduce here ... this is my setup: /dev/hda / ext2 0 1 /dev/hdb /var ext2 0 2 my / has a completely blank /var/, so there's no way for that to be an issue bootup with baselayout-1.11.9-r1 is exactly as expected, see the attached screen shot of qemu test env
Did the following: mount --bind / /mnt/fixroot cd /mnt/fixroot/var rm -r * # Clean out everything on the root partition var directory cd / umount /mnt/fixroot I was still having problems.. changed /etc/conf.d/rc to set svcdir to /etc/runlib and to mount a tmpfs for it. Was still having problems After doing quite abit of tracing, I was able to finally track down that I had a "stray" entry in fstab for none /devfs /dev -- I am using udev So What I think was happening was that when rc hit localmount, it mounted /devfs on /dev and screwing up what udev had set up. removing the /devfs entry from fstab cleared up the boot problem. I suspect that earlier versions of baselayout either masked the problem, or I was just getting lucky. I am going to check one last thing.. I'm going to remove the svcdir mount statement. I suspect that in the root partition I will find the svcdir data there.
did the change -- root partition var directory still clean.. So.. looks like I had a config problem that was masked by the earlier versions of baselayout. Sorry for the wild goose chase..
Closing as user configuration error
