[arch-dev-public] [ANNOUNCE] filesystem-2011.12 manual intervention required
Hi guys, We are finalizing the move to libmonut based mount, paving the way for read-only root, by moving /etc/mtab into the filesystem package. This used to be a dynamic file generated at boot and updated at runtime, but as of the last initscripts package it was simply a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. This symlink was created at boot (at the same place the old mtab was generated), but this turned out to cause a few problems. Sadly, moving the symlink to 'filesystem' requires user intervention, which I will write a news item about. The essential message will be: "Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in order to overwrite /etc/mtab." Please test and signoff, as I'd like to make the move to core rather quickly. Cheers, Tom
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
Hi guys,
We are finalizing the move to libmonut based mount, paving the way for read-only root, by moving /etc/mtab into the filesystem package. This used to be a dynamic file generated at boot and updated at runtime, but as of the last initscripts package it was simply a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.
This symlink was created at boot (at the same place the old mtab was generated), but this turned out to cause a few problems.
Sadly, moving the symlink to 'filesystem' requires user intervention, which I will write a news item about. The essential message will be:
"Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in order to overwrite /etc/mtab."
I'd prefer to ask people to rm /etc/mtab and -Su, rather than advertise -f (which has been removed in pacman-git, leaving only --force).
Please test and signoff, as I'd like to make the move to core rather quickly.
Cheers,
Tom
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
Hi guys,
We are finalizing the move to libmonut based mount, paving the way for read-only root, by moving /etc/mtab into the filesystem package. This used to be a dynamic file generated at boot and updated at runtime, but as of the last initscripts package it was simply a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.
This symlink was created at boot (at the same place the old mtab was generated), but this turned out to cause a few problems.
Sadly, moving the symlink to 'filesystem' requires user intervention, which I will write a news item about. The essential message will be:
"Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in order to overwrite /etc/mtab."
I'd prefer to ask people to rm /etc/mtab and -Su, rather than advertise -f (which has been removed in pacman-git, leaving only --force).
Please test and signoff, as I'd like to make the move to core rather quickly.
Cheers,
Tom
Gah.. and of course saying that, and then going and doing it -- the missing mtab makes pacman choke on diskspace checking. --force might be the easier option here... d
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dave Reisner
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
Hi guys,
We are finalizing the move to libmonut based mount, paving the way for read-only root, by moving /etc/mtab into the filesystem package. This used to be a dynamic file generated at boot and updated at runtime, but as of the last initscripts package it was simply a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.
This symlink was created at boot (at the same place the old mtab was generated), but this turned out to cause a few problems.
Sadly, moving the symlink to 'filesystem' requires user intervention, which I will write a news item about. The essential message will be:
"Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in order to overwrite /etc/mtab."
I'd prefer to ask people to rm /etc/mtab and -Su, rather than advertise -f (which has been removed in pacman-git, leaving only --force).
Please test and signoff, as I'd like to make the move to core rather quickly.
Cheers,
Tom
Gah.. and of course saying that, and then going and doing it -- the missing mtab makes pacman choke on diskspace checking. --force might be the easier option here...
Yeah, I'll make this clear in the news item. --force is always, always, always wrong. Except for this one time, when it is the only solution ;-) -t
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