On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:30:38PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 17 August 2010 21:51, Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:31:48PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > >> On 17 August 2010 14:03, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On 16 August 2010 20:52, Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for attaching your .config. ??CONFIG_UNION_MOUNT wasn't set: > >> >> > >> >> # CONFIG_UNION_MOUNT is not set > >> >> > >> >> Try rebuilding with that on. ??Yes, it should build without > >> >> CONFIG_UNION_MOUNT and I'll test that for next release. > >> >> > >> >> -VAL > >> >> > >> > > >> > Sorry, I thought I enabled it. > >> > > >> > Anyway, I changed that option in the config but it still does not build. > >> > > >> > >> OK, a build without the ext2 filesystem works. > >> > >> Now when I try to mount the filesystem I get: > >> > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??(initramfs) mount_full -t tmpfs -o union tmpfs /root > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? [ ?? 43.403419] tmpfs: No value for mount option > >> 'union' > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock > >> on tmpfs, > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??missing codepage or helper program, or other error > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > >> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??dmesg | tail ??or so > >> > >> I wonder if the docs are out of date. They suggest to only add -o union. > >> > >> I think it used to work, I recycled the scripts that produced the > >> halfway-booting system last time. > > > > Hm, does mount_full call the new mount binary built from the union > > mounts util-linux-ng git tree? ??You can find the git tree here: > > > > http://valerieaurora.org/union/ > > > Yes, that's the problem. I installed a wrong package and the mount > command did not get updated. > > I copy it as moutn_full into initramfs because mount is normally > something from klibc or busybox. > > A dmesg can be found here: http://paste.debian.net/84100 > > The system often boots but some features fail at random probably > depending on the part of init which is affected by the unionmount > failures. Thanks a ton! Al just told me to rewrite that part of the code completely. The good news is the new version will have fewer pointers to be unexpectedly NULL. :) -VAL -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
