Bug 68664

Summary:	initscripts upgrade doesn't disable /proc and /proc/bus/usb in /etc/fstab
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <h1k6zn2m>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2002-07-12 07:17:33 UTC

After upgrading to the current version of initscripts (6.82-1) and rebooting, I
got errors from mount about /proc and /proc/bus/usb already being mounted.  If
initscripts is going to take over responsibility for mounting these, then its
postinstall script needs to comment out the entries for them in /etc/fstab.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-12 16:07:40 UTC

/proc is always in /etc/fstab. /proc/bus/usb never is.

What sort of system do you have?

Comment 2 Jonathan Kamens 2002-07-12 16:18:32 UTC

I could have sworn /proc/bus/usb ended up in my /etc/fstab because something had
previously added it.  In any case, even if I'm wrong about that, you still have
a problem, because /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is now mounting /proc.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-12 16:23:47 UTC

rc.sysinit has always mounted /proc, since the dawn of time.

Something else has broken your system. :)

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-14 01:59:21 UTC

I *think* this was a mkinitrd bug. If you build an initrd with the latest
mkinitrd, does it behave better?

Comment 5 Jonathan Kamens 2002-08-14 10:39:29 UTC

I don't have an initrd.  I'm not sure how this could be an initrd problem -- the
basic issue is that both /etc/fstab and initscripts are trying to mount /proc.

(Although I haven't checked the current Rawhide initscripts etc. - having a new
baby in the house cuts into your free time :-)

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-14 17:21:59 UTC

rc.sysinit mounts proc before most anything else, and before anything using
/etc/fstab would mount it. What does your /etc/fstab look like?

Comment 7 Jonathan Kamens 2002-08-14 20:46:30 UTC

Here's the line for /proc from /etc/fstab:

none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-14 21:50:29 UTC

Where in rc.sysinit do you see these errors at?

Comment 9 Jonathan Kamens 2002-08-16 02:15:13 UTC

I'm not seeing this problem anymore with current Raw Hide after commenting out
/proc/bus/usb in /etc/fstab but leaving /proc alone (i.e., not commented out). 
I still think that there are going to be problems for people who have
/proc/bus/usb listed in their /etc/fstab.

Comment 10 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:05:45 UTC

Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.