On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 01:52:44AM +0000, Dylan Cali wrote:
> Hello I'm the user in question. The specific situation was a boot time
> failure where /proc had failed to mount. So to enumerate the conditions and
> the result:
>
> 1) /proc is not mounted (or has failed to mount)
> 2) /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (or /proc/self/mounts)
> 3) /run is not in /etc/fstab
> 4) The directory /run exists on the filesystem
Very special use-case :-)
> In this situation 'mount /run' results in:
> mount: /run: mount failed: No such file or directory
>
> Obviously mount is referring to /etc/mtab not existing, so the error message
> at present is misleading.
Fixed in master branch. Thanks!
Karel
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