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Bug#724695: brltty: initramfs hook copies /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab



* Samuel Thibault [Fri Nov 15, 2013 at 01:50:18PM +0100]:
> Michael Prokop, le Fri 15 Nov 2013 13:37:13 +0100, a écrit :
> > * Samuel Thibault [Sat Nov 09, 2013 at 09:20:05PM +0100]:
> > > Michael Prokop, le Thu 26 Sep 2013 20:30:31 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > In debian/initramfs/scripts/init-premount/brltty there's:

> > > >   cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

> > > > This is wrong, /etc/mtab is supposed to be a symlink to
> > > > /proc/mounts. Please remove this line.

> > > Well, it is not in my test (adding break=mount to the kernel command
> > > line). Maybe your setup is different?

> > /etc/mtab is pointing to /proc/mounts in the real system (after
> > booting initrd finished), it shouldn't be a normal file inside the
> > initrd either.

> Ok, then which package is supposed to build that symlink, so we can add
> the symlink there and remove the copy in brltty?

/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh of package initscripts creates the symlink,
the code that does that is inside /lib/init/mount-functions.sh
(function mtab_migrate).

regards,
-mika-

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