On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Ziga Mahkovec wrote: > Not being able to write to /dev/null could imply a timing problem. > Could you please try adding the following to /sbin/bootchartd, at the > start of the start() function (line 41): > > while [ ! -w /dev/null ]; do sleep $SAMPLE_PERIOD; done > > Does this help?
No. I added some extra log output, and it does execute start(), it does
not sleep in the while loop you suggested, so I guess at that moment
/dev/null is writeable, but it fails later on anyway.
After booting a few times I noticed that it sometimes works OK, but most
of the time it doesn't. I guess it's caused by udev mounting a tmpfs
over /dev, which makes /dev empty for a short interval. Perhaps you
should create a copy of /dev/null to a safe place in the postinst
script? Not very nice, I agree.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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