Bug 262467

Summary:	baselayout-1: /sbin/rc should check if /proc and /sys are pre-mounted
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	William Pitcock <nenolod>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-10-11 01:09:17 UTC

http://sources.gentoo.org/baselayout/branches/baselayout-1_12/sbin/rc?r1=3144&r2=3145