Bug 63899

Summary:	/etc/mtab missing on first boot
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eric Brown <eric.brown>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eric Brown 2004-09-13 08:31:56 UTC

every single gentoo system i install (2004.1, 2004.2), has a problem on the first boot with /etc/mtab being missing.  If i simply login and reboot, the next time the problem is gone.  Can anyone else reproduce that problem?  I think mtab gets [!!] in one of the first 5 scripts that run...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install gentoo
2. boot up for the first time
3.

Comment 1 Canal Vorfeed 2004-09-13 14:15:46 UTC

Hmm. mtab is created in install process:

...
10. Configuring the Bootloader
...
Code Listing 6: Updating /etc/mtab

# cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
...


Boot scripts will refresh it but it does not exist at all I think there are can be some [harmless] warnings...

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-09-13 15:00:12 UTC

yeah, mtab is not a critical file but mount will spit warnings at you