'Twas brillig, and Cristian Rodríguez at 31/10/13 15:17 did gyre and gimble: > El jue 31 oct 2013 07:43:54 CLST, Harald Hoyer escribió: >> On 10/30/2013 09:25 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote: >>> El 30/10/13 15:34, Harald Hoyer escribió: >>>> On 10/30/2013 07:27 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote: >>>>> El mié 30 oct 2013 15:18:48 CLST, Tom Gundersen escribió: >>>>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Cristian Rodríguez >>>>>> <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>> Real executable might be in /usr and not in /bin >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not against the patch, but the justification seems lacking... >>>>>> Does >>>>>> anyone actually do this? I.e., have a mount that is not symlinked to >>>>>> by /bin/mount? >>>>> >>>>> I am not aware of anyone not having a symlink to /bin/mount.. however, >>>>> when creating an initrd with dracut the symlink is not included (only >>>>> the real binary is at /usr/bin/mount) and mounting stuff breaks. >>>>> >>>>> It is either this patch or I should send a patch to dracut instead :-) >>>>> >>>>> In any case, from my perspective this is the right thing to do anyway. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Can you provide me the output of "dracut --debug -f test.img", so I >>>> can see what >>>> goes wrong? >>>> >>>> Normally dracut also installs the symlink. >>>> >>> >>> Here is the debug log attached, this is dracut git HEAD. >>> >>> The resulting initrd drops you into the emergency shell because >>> systemd is >>> unable to find /bin/mount to mount /sysroot. >>> >>> Workaround to continue boot is to create the symlink and exit or a >>> adding >>> band-aid hack to >>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/99fs-lib/module-setup.sh >>> >>> just before inst_multiple -o $_helpers fsck to force installation of >>> mount as >>> /bin/mount , clearly not the right thing to do ;-) >>> >> >> dracut-install: Handle 'mount' >> dracut-install: PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin >> dracut-install: stat(/usr/sbin/mount) != 0 >> dracut-install: stat(/sbin/mount) != 0 >> dracut-install: find_binary(mount) == /usr/bin/mount >> dracut-install: dracut_install '/usr/bin/mount' >> dracut-install: dracut_install('/usr/bin/mount', '/usr/bin/mount') >> dracut-install: dracut_install ret = 0 >> dracut-install: cp '/usr/bin/mount' >> '/var/tmp/initramfs.pRJ2ZL/usr/bin/mount' >> dracut-install: dracut_install ret = 0 >> dracut-install: dracut_install '/usr/bin/mount' OK >> >> >> So, the PATH dracut uses is PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin. >> dracut-install finds a real mount at /usr/bin/mount. >> >> So, you are saying, that you have a symbolic link pointing: >> >> /bin/mount -> /usr/bin/mount >> >> ?? > > Yes /bin/mount -> /usr/bin/mount . > > >> What we might can do, is search _all_ components of PATH for the >> binaries and >> install everyone of them. > > That will be cool. because there is the same problem with the following > binaries > > setfont, loadkeys, blkid and mount. As a semi-hack, can you not just run the convertfs.sh script included in dracut before doing the final compress? Wouldn't this "fix" the problem too? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
