On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has
> a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask:
>
> Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned,
> adding separate partitions for swap, /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var
> (in addition to the win7 partition). I then installed LMDE (Linux Mint
> Debian Edition, a directly-debian-derived, rolling-release, APT-packaged
> distro). This has worked well, except for a problem at startup, whether
> after restart (i.e., warm boot) or shutdown (i.e., cold boot):
>
> On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get errors
> beginning with
>
> > Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount.
>
> and ending (just before it goes to X) with many (10 > n > 100) lines
> beginning with
>
> > shm_open() failed
>
> I suspect this is related to having a separate /var partition, since,
> once the box is booted and I'm logged in, I see that
>
> * /run is symlinked to /var/run
>
Since /run is meant to replace all temporary filesystems in RAM I would
expect this to be other way around, ie /var/run to be symlinked to /run. So
/run should be a tmpfs and /run/shm and /run/lock part of it. Also /dev/shm
should ne symlinked to /run/shm as well. Can you post your /etc/fstab and
output from 'df -hl' command?
> * /run/shm is a directory
>
> I'm wondering, how to fix this problem? E.g., can I make /var (and
> therefore /var/run) mount before whatever is trying to mount /run?
>
> If there is a better place to ask this question, please lemme know.
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com>
>
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