Hi, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2015-10-17): > I've cloned this bug report and move the new bug over to the grub-pc > package now, to help us track it. Until that's fixed, it's probably > worth us adding a check in d-i and recommending the use of a /boot > partition with XFS for now. KiBi: what do you think about that? I have only very limited (mental) bandwidth for that right now but from a quick look, that doesn't look like a bad idea. > >Booting to new install fails with message: > > > >"systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing > >to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore. Please > >replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. > >systemd[1]: Freezing execution." (timestamps omitted) > > ACK - I've just seen that mentioned in another bug log elsewhere today > (#802025 - a stupid systemd mis-feature to hang hard here, > sigh). Currently grub-installer (at the very least) faithfully updates > /etc/mtab during d-i, and I guess we should also change that > too. Maybe just simply rm /target/etc/mtab as part of d-i > finalisation. KiBi? TBH I have no idea what d-i is doing at the moment; I thought we have /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts, at least in installed systems? This seems to be the case here on multiple systems at least: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 12 20:41 /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts I realize this doesn't immediately answer your question, just mentioning… Mraw, KiBi.
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