A very brief question, noticing some messages in syslog, can my problem be in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 7:12 AM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: retitle -1 dbus-daemon does not start, perhaps related to having > a separate /var > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 at 15:25:47 -0400, Thomas Hardman wrote: > > I have /var on a "spinner" drive along with /home and /tmp, and / and > /usr are > > on two different partitions of an NVME/PCIe solid-state drive. > > > > /etc/fstab mounts these partitions from the "spinner" drive using UUID > rather > > than calling (for example) /dev/sda1 to mount on /var. Possibly > irrelevant. > > > > Is it possible that somewhere in the process of mounting the spinner > partition > > for /var, the dbus directory with dbus.service and dbus.socket becomes > > inaccessible and need to be recreated with `service dbus restart`? > > Aha. A separate /var mounted relatively late in boot is an unusual > configuration: it is meant to be supported, but few developers test it, > so I could well believe that it has regressed at some point. > > I'm going to ask some leading questions now, but please don't change > your system configuration yet based on the answers you think I'm looking > for to these questions: I might need to ask further questions for more > diagnostics before settling on a solution. > > On your root partition (if you mount the root from an initrd, live-CD or > similar recovery media), is /var/run a symbolic link to /run, or a real > directory, or does it not exist at all? > > On your /var partition, is /var/run a symbolic link to /run, or is it a > real directory? > > Does your /etc/fstab have an entry for /var/run? > > Please could you attach your entire /etc/fstab? If there's anything > you consider to be sensitive in there, you can email it to s...@debian.org > instead of sending it to 903...@bugs.debian.org, or censor it by replacing > UUIDs, user-defined directory names etc. with xxxxx, yyyyy etc. in a > consistent way. > > It would also be helpful if you could send /var/log/syslog entries > for an entire bootup sequence (again, send it to me privately if you > prefer, and it's OK to censor it but please make it obvious where you > have done so). > > Thanks, > smcv >
