A couple of rawhide surprises

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 20:44:00 UTC 2006


On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:38:20PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I did the massive update on my x86-64 rawhide box today.  The resulting
> system would not boot.  It seems that the update changes rc.sysinit,
> taking out the lines which mount /proc and /sys.  It's amazing how badly
> the system does without those filesystems...it can't even get into
> single-user mode.  Let's hear it for rescue disks.
> 
> Putting the mount lines back into rc.sysinit makes things work again,
> but I assume this change was made for a reason?  Is there somthing in
> the Fedora kernel now which mounts those filesystems automatically?  If
> so, people (like me) running mainline kernels will get a surprise.

This is what the initscripts changelog says about it:
  - don't mount /sys and /proc in rc.sysinit - the initrd already does
Are you not using an initrd?

HTH,

Nalin




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