On 18 August 2010 21:06, Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I wonder if the docs are out of date.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. :) > Actually, if I read the code correctly the pointer is unexpectedly non-null as it is supposed to be allocated in the function in question. Thanks Michal -- 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
