Hello Steve, Steve McIntyre [2015-10-17 21:31 +0100]: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:12:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >Am 17.10.2015 um 17:46 schrieb Michael Biebl: > >> Am 17.10.2015 um 00:53 schrieb Ilya Sukhanov: > >>> Package: systemd > >>> Version: 227-2 > >>> Severity: grave > >>> > >>> System freezes at boot with "/etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing > >>> to /proc/self/mounts..." > >>> > >>> To reproduce install debian from stretch_di_alpha3 amd64 image (used > > > >> Sounds like a bug in debian-installer. It shouldn't setup /etc/mtab as > >> real file.
Indeed. So having a hard failure about it was at least useful for something.. > I've just committed a fix for that in d-i. Thanks! > >Martin, I guess there is some value in keeping that hard freeze for now, > >which should help us identify such faulty software. > > > >I wouldn't release stretch with that behaviour, but having it in > >stretch/sid for a while is probably ok. Yes, agreed. Otherwise we'll still fight this in the next two releases. > Right now, it's going to stop people from being able to install > stretch at all. Please take out this retarded mis-feature. By all > means, complain and warn about the problem, but hanging hard is just > not helpful for our users here. The plan is indeed to stop that freeze, see the upstream bug. We'll do that with util-linux 2.27.1 which stops looking at /etc/mtab. So this won't go into Stretch. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
