Bug 157283

Summary:	awk error on boot
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luis Diaz <diazluis>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Low
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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 gentoo-dev

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.