On 2021-07-16 at 10:23, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Control: tags -1 patch
>
> Thorsten Glaser writes ("Re: Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs
> moutning"):
>> This is not as easy as it sounds:
>>
>> tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ sudo mount -t efivarfs efivarfs
>> /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>> mount: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars: mount point does not exist.
>> 32|tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ sudo mkdir -p /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/sys/firmware/efi’: Operation not permitted
>>
>> This is on amd64 without EFI (classical BIOS, no CSM).
>
> Oh.
>
> I guess this should be done if /sys/firmware/efi/efivars exists, then.
>
> Can you confirm that that directory doesn't exist for you ?A possible additional complicating factor: on my system (tracking current testing, which I suspect is likely to turn into stable fairly soon), with sysvinit as the active init system, this directory already exists and is already mounted. I'm not sure what's making the difference (unless this is already fixed for testing, and you're only discussing whether to backport the fix to current stable, which I think doesn't sound like it is the case), and I'm not sure where to look to try to find out - but whatever fix is found for anyone experiencing this problem, it'll be important to make sure it doesn't break people for whom this *is* working. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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