[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#538725: checkroot.sh: fails if root not in fstab

[Yair Yarom]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-65
Severity: normal


Hi,

We have here nfsroot, and no "/" entry in /etc/fstab. It seems that
checkroot.sh suppose to support it, i.e. if it doesn't get to a "/" entry, the
rootcheck variable is set to "no" (or, more precisely, remains "no"). However,
in line 208, for some undocumented reason, there is a "rootcheck=yes"
overriding any previous rootcheck=no, causing fsck to run (in our case) as
"fsck -C -a -t none none", which runs reiserfsck, which fails.
Deleting that line seems to solve it for us.

    Yair.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.2nopae-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                 3.2          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.9-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-22       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                       2.15.1~rc1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils              2.86.ds1-65  System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.3-1   ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.7-1     utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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--- checkroot.sh.orig	2009-08-05 17:29:05.000000000 +0300
+++ checkroot.sh	2009-08-05 17:29:16.000000000 +0300
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@
 #			rootcheck=no
 #		fi
 #	fi
-	rootcheck=yes
 
 	#
 	# See if we want to check the root file system.