From: Thomas Sigurdsen <thomas.sigurdsen@gmail.com>
To: me@jfr.im
Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:57:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5673E6B1.9040705@gmail.com> (raw)
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The problems/strange state persists with mtab being a symlink and then
rebooting. Mtab stays a symlink through reboots too.
> I wouldn't expect the symlink to fix anything without a reboot (since
> the main problem is at startup time). I'm not sure if the dbus issue
> is separate or not - if it is the same it seems odd that it won't
> start even after getting everything mounted by hand, anyway.
>
> -John Sent from my phone
>
> Thomas Sigurdsen <thomas.sigurdsen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>>> It seems to me the root of your problems is fsck failing because
>>> (it thinks) the partitions are already mounted.
>>>
>>> Is your mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts as it "should" be?
>>
>> Just checked, and mtab is not a symlink. It is a plain text file.
>>
>> Just tried takinga backup of mtab and symlinking /proc/mounts onto
>> /etc/mtab yields no different results when trying
>> `/etc/init.d/dbus start`. Is this something I fix somewhere else or
>> maybe I just need to reboot the system after symlinking.
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next reply other threads:[~2015-12-18 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-18 10:57 Thomas Sigurdsen [this message]
2015-12-18 11:32 ` [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting Alan Mackenzie
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2015-12-12 21:39 John Runyon
2015-12-12 20:17 Thomas Sigurdsen
2015-12-11 19:46 John Runyon
2015-12-11 19:35 Thomas Sigurdsen
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