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Bug 214182

Summary: sys-apps/baselayout /etc/init.d/checkroot should handle /etc/mtab symlink to ../proc/mounts
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Robert A. <r.a>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: handle /etc/mtab to ../proc/mounts symlink

Description Robert A. 2008-03-21 23:18:38 UTC
/etc/init.d/checkroot tries to write to /etc/mtab which does not work if it is a symlink to ../proc/mounts.
Comment 1 Robert A. 2008-03-21 23:19:34 UTC
Created attachment 146804 [details, diff]
handle /etc/mtab to ../proc/mounts symlink
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-21 23:21:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 210966 ***
Comment 3 Robert A. 2008-03-21 23:26:50 UTC
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-ra i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-ra i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU L2500 @ 1.83GHz
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:04 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa arts bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm hal iconv idn isdnlog ithreads jpeg kde kdeenablefinal mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musepack ncurses nptl nptlonly ntfs ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl svg tetex theora threads tiff truetype unicode vcd vorbis win32codecs x86 xfs xine xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 4 Robert A. 2008-03-21 23:27:56 UTC
i am not interessted in patching glibc. its a simple one line patch to the /etc/init.d/checkroot script.
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-21 23:29:54 UTC
Yeah, then go argue this on this original bug about exact same 'issue'. Thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 210966 ***