Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> (2017-05-29): > I think if you use debian-installer to install the system, it will > also create /etc/mtab (as an absolute symlink to /proc/mounts). The > debian.conf tmpfiles config will "correct" that on first boot to make > it a relative symlink.
As I said, finish-install (which runs at the very last stage of d-i) has this script: | #! /bin/sh | | # some things inside d-i will make an /etc/mtab file, but it shouldn't | # be there in the installed system. Systemd will be desperately unhappy. | if [ -f /target/etc/mtab ]; then | ln -sf /proc/self/mounts /target/etc/mtab | fi so until all d-i components are checked/modified not to rely on or toy with /target's /etc/mtab, this code could be made to remove the file/link entirely when the installation is finalized. > I guess you mean stretch, but yeah, we had this fixup rule for two > release cycles (via debian-fixup.service in jessie and via the > tmpfiles snippet in stretch). Maybe it's time to drop that in buster. > Should we get d-i (and FAI) updated to drop the creation of /etc/mtab > as well then? d-i only gets that file into place because some of its components need it (or used to need it). It's technically easy to modify the code above to drop /target/etc/mtab instead of converting from a static file to a symlink. That being said, changing this so late in the release cycle makes me a bit uneasy. :/ KiBi.
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