Description of problem:
With readonly root configured, local (non nfs) filesystems are not automounted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-8.86-1.i386

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure a machine with readonly-root.
2.Include "none	/mnt	tmpfs	0	0" in /etc/fstab
3.Boot into single usermode
  
Actual results:

 /mnt is not mounted and is not writeable.


Expected results:

 /mnt should be mounted

Additional info:

The particular problem of /tmp not being writeable is avoidable by ensuring that /tmp is in /etc/rwtab (which it is by default in the distribution). However, this problem applies to any other filesystem eg on a hard disk or usb stick or whatever.

The problem seems to be in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, where:

# Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already
# mounted). Contrary to standard usage,
# filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode.
if [ "$READONLY" != "yes" ] ; then
        action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev
else
        action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -n -t nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev
fi

Does not do the right thing when READONLY is "yes". It is hard to see what was meant here. I don't think you want to mount all the net work filesystems yet, but you certainly do want to mount any tmpfs, ext2 etc filesystems. I think the only reason for the conditional is to allow the "-n" option because /etc/mtab is not writeable.

I've been using "mount -a -n  -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev" for the second arm of the conditional successfully.

Fedora 8 did not have this conditional at all (and would throw annoying error messages, but otherwise work).