Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html

>> On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get
>> errors beginning with

>> > Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount.

>> and ending (just before it goes to X) with many (10 > n > 100) lines
>> beginning with

>> > shm_open() failed

>> I suspect this is related to having a separate /var partition, since,
>> once the box is booted and I'm logged in, I see that

>> * /run is symlinked to /var/run

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00682.html

> Since /run is meant to replace all temporary filesystems in RAM
> I would expect this to be other way around, ie
> /var/run to be symlinked to /run. So /run should be a tmpfs and
> /run/shm and /run/lock part of it. Also

> /dev/shm should [be] symlinked to /run/shm as well.

> Can you post your /etc/fstab and output from 'df -hl' command?

$ cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=81371084-8857-4621-8859-733596cf4862 /boot ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=1ac01fa0-3a44-4ff9-9d9c-3634e2d7d741 swap swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=43f3e818-1727-4c73-bead-480a413d73df / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=e19d7759-64d9-4371-b648-fb4a7ba9882c /usr ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
# /dev/sda8
UUID=89d00ebd-7c22-4170-8cab-9e1a1273bc70 /opt ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
# /dev/sda9
UUID=064fea46-d50f-4e9b-b88b-af430ae667e0 /var ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
# /dev/sda10
UUID=0473c32c-5667-4725-8c7b-b9b931e81f54 /tmp ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
# /dev/sda11
UUID=575d3851-e472-45b2-be69-db4db84fedba /home ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0

$ find / -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -ve '/$' | sort | xargs du -hls 2> /dev/null
9.1M /bin
62M /boot
684K /dev
30M /etc
17G /home
457M /lib
5.2M /lib32
4.0K /lib64
16K /lost+found
4.0K /mnt
111M /opt
0 /proc
4.0K /.pulse
4.0K /root
13M /sbin
4.0K /selinux
4.0K /srv
0 /sys
72K /tmp
4.9G /usr
470M /var

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00680.html
> Does [LMDE] still use init?

$ ps aux | fgrep init
root 1 1.7 0.0 10636 832 ? Ss 00:08 0:01 init [2]
me 3253 0.0 0.0 7772 708 pts/0 S+ 00:10 0:00 fgrep init
$ ps aux | fgrep upstart
me 3264 0.0 0.0 7740 704 pts/0 S+ 00:10 0:00 fgrep upstart
$ ps aux | fgrep systemd
me 3266 0.0 0.0 7740 704 pts/0 S+ 00:10 0:00 fgrep systemd

Note LMDE != "Mint": latter now comes in several versions, of which LMDE
is one.

$ lsb_release -ds
Linux Mint Debian Edition
$ cat /etc/debian_version
wheezy/sid
$ uname -rv
3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 09:07:26 UTC 2012

Your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>

Do you have the initscripts package and its dependencies installed?

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