[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#391286: df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

severity 391286 normal
merge 391286 391122
thanks

[Marco d'Itri]
> reassign 391286 initscripts
> thanks
> 
> On Oct 05, Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic at iskon.hr> wrote:
> 
> > df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied
> > ...
> 
> > What can be done about that?
> For a start you could blame the correct package.
> As you can see from /etc/init.d/udev-mtab, by default udev itself does
> not add /dev/.static/dev to /etc/mtab.
> I am reassigning the bug to initscripts which looks a likely candidate
> for updating mtab.

There are two options here.  One is to make /dev/.static/ readable by
all users, to avoid the permission denied error from df.  The other is
to remove /dev/.static/dev from /etc/mtab.  The latter will remove the
error message from df while creating a new error message from umount
during shutdown when all file systems are umounted.

I'm not quite sure what is best.  If I got it right, you maintain
udev.  What is your opinion on this.  Why is /dev/.static/ unaccesable
for non-root users?

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen