Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 finish-install 2.90 Control: retitle -2 Stop using/creating /etc/mtab Control: block -1 by -2
On Mon, 29 May 2017 21:23:28 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > 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. :/ Buster development is still young, so let's get this started by creating a bug report for finish-install. KiBi, if you know more places where /etc/mtab is used inside the installer, please let me know and I'll clone/reassign this bug accordingly. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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