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Bug#668139: falls over a missing directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount



martin f krafft wrote:
> I don't know what os-prober does, but
> 
>   # os-prober
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
>   ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error
> 
> strikes me as unnecessary (the backup didn't contain the directory
> for some reason). Maybe a simple check and mkdir() could mitigate
> this?

This is a temporary mount point for the partitions os-prober is probing
for an OS. Apparently the kernel is failing to read one of those
partitions after mounting it.

-- 
see shy jo

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