Bug 43070 - losetup fails if /tmp is tmpfs
Summary: losetup fails if /tmp is tmpfs
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-31 13:46 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-05-31 13:46:34 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-05-31 13:46:29 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac5 i686)

Description of problem:
mkinitrd runs losetup which fails over tmpfs. This is probably a bug in the
kernel. (I tested with 2.4.5-ac5)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount /tmp as tmpfs
2. run mkinitrd
	
	

Actual Results:  3. "all your loop devices are in use"

Additional info:

hacking the mktemp lines from /tmp to /var/tmp solved the problem for memk
Comment 1 Erik Troan 2002-01-16 20:36:28 UTC 
mkinitrd looks around for a non-tmpfs directory as of 3.3.1
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