From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E621384B4 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26E57E08B0; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com (mail-lb0-f169.google.com [209.85.217.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D927EE08A2 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id cs9so60988786lbb.1 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 02:58:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=reply-to:to:cc:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EqcEBBi0LcLMPkQwLWJsithiBNkrseDuDH8F+92OnrA=; b=rMF/uw8vnFwy/6cKW/N0QXxqnPVaEWoV4U5UX0K63DyVFfjANbt0BX+pPhCh+MNDzC 6uTjpxj8LvvlNoUakr9nvl2XxC0PG4nhmprJ/RdiLhC+9SMmPgOtIsHZecSrVteigeRf h7PX4nj7GNuG1Y02yk7roq7rVsCPKDTb2EuL4W24rP7acWMPRarpMQEBGR4HAYxkuhak nCCaZdH2AIbJubJYeHZDm6Uk8LmKxMw2eJ3jqC1oEQAWzB+y2rtyom43HgZIComZtyg9 Az7P25cPTxTv1NOiXijfM2bisDD7Vi0S44CmhSyw5gUCfFAXUhMeZDfIIGlkieqA2VpX rfbQ== X-Received: by 10.112.148.136 with SMTP id ts8mr850492lbb.38.1450436305092; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 02:58:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.42.133] (28.80-203-96.nextgentel.com. [80.203.96.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id re5sm2660353lbb.22.2015.12.18.02.58.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Dec 2015 02:58:23 -0800 (PST) To: me@jfr.im Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Thomas Sigurdsen Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <5673E6B1.9040705@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:57:53 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: b1960d8b-7282-4663-abe2-9cdd06d4af4d X-Archives-Hash: ca5c11487c044f03e06c993db15fe3d6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 >> >>> 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. >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 >> >> iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWbIDrAAoJEMUjE08Xv1s5xiMH/RHhiWklaZiMes7h5PSVLP7M >> JLJJ14jpqytxPfDujZfUznT+Yed/QxvwNSG2lK7YidxKxrTwB/F8cslFKHulDMc/ >> Sp4knftRAdHu9f21lkt+LWgfryu6ZxOu4lzCjGev/47yFU7nOb/5BWfBVinGm8vo >> lZVweuEQJOmqs1k7cl5EpYMbKzx6YYuQpkGddV5VK9Gq99r6zSCThpc/XkS49gLF >> DTblOWBXcJcmw3vWwsYHwdGz2eIAdCN5LJ0brRCwocWneZUXRouDuITBhGCtWL1W >> gnSp6W/WWY9khINvZmiJUxxP0Oe+YQ+88MBLly2f4ptn4NUVJFA+gRm6XOlw/50= >> =Wsr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWc+axAAoJEMUjE08Xv1s5y+oH/0lrOLDp7bNWQWgvIW2JN8as y+qxKPvW4WCXg0677qB/PCVcwPwdhQlKeSp2D1Qbip7pJTqoNYnTmpuIW41BQjNZ o4/8HV4LuWNUJBIVT45h7RODkLnRy1ewgd1z4PbQjAORLuCElGR3/XXa/G28Pi5j QTz9yvauPyZEAxrOARTDRLj3Q9ZVTMBR3cOXJ3vnemBmxkE8Di+9EO6ev5N2i4U7 kbIyXU6DmFgco5XPWtNn84biNrlEue3O4vz/VL9j62yuJ/B2l+YK02ocuTXhJfZY pAvYfDF6FzeWcNmfO4PW6TPP4EV4WVT8amTiMUdlzQXW7eMdb2S0RlAtYYTEbvg= =lb1j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----