Bug 73762 – update to sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.7-r2 can render system with chroot in /etc/fstab unbootable

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73536
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-12-08 00:39:02 UTC]

/sbin/rc was recently changed to mount /proc as follows:

        ebegin "Mounting proc at /proc"
        if is_in_fstab /proc ; then
                try mount -n /proc
        else
                try mount -n -t proc none /proc
        fi
        eend $?

The previous working version simply did:
        ebegin "Mounting proc at /proc"
        try mount -n -t proc none /proc
        eend $?

If the user's /etc/fstab contains lines like this:
none                    /proc           proc            defaults               0 0
...
/proc                  /mnt/gentoo32/proc              auto    bind           0 0

then 'mount /proc' will try to mount that second line, it will fail, and the system will fail to boot.

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-12-08 00:42:44 UTC]

looks like this pertains to /sys as well...

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-12-08 10:42:16 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73536 ***