Bug#756340: [systemd] Boot stops with certain (valid) tmpfs entries in /etc/fstab

[gisl at leonde.de]

On Tuesday 29 July 2014 00:07:41 you wrote:

> > /var/run and /var/lock should be symlinks to
> > /run and /run/lock nowadays and your system needs has been updated by
> > the sysvinit package to support that.
>
> > Also, 1777 is very much broken for /var/run.
> 
> Let me add here: Since /var/run is a symlink to /run, what happened is,
> that /run was mounted early on, then /var/run was mounted over /run via
> the symlink, thus breaking any open sockets and pid files which were
> already in /run.
> 
Then the actual bug might have been in the /run migration script, or it was 
just my own fault.

In any way, this would indeed be hard to detect or report for systemd.

Thanks for your time and help
Carsten