Comment 34 for bug 431040

  Could this be triggered by the mounting of the /var/run subdirectory onto /var?

> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:34:21 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
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> Subject: [Bug 431040] Re: separate /var and /var/tmp tmpfs dependency loop
>
> This bug does not appear to be fixed in karmic final. Attempting to
> mount tmpfs to /var or /var/log in fstab results in a hung "waiting for
> tmpfs" at boot. This was NOT the case in karmic alpha3 and prior, so
> perhaps it is the use of upstart that is triggering this problem?
> Mounting tmpfs to /tmp does NOT cause this problem, just /var or a /var
> subdir.
>
> To reproduce, add this line to fstab:
> tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0
>
> or
>
> tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0
>
> This is an important ability for systems with SSDs, so I don't think the
> importance should be low. mountall --version reports "mountall 1.0". I
> installed from kubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso
>
>
>
> ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu Karmic)
> Status: Fix Released => New
>
> --
> separate /var and /var/tmp tmpfs dependency loop
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431040
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