Oh right and the trace command that Steve used will show a call to init early on which passes in a state fd which then, a bit later, seems to be used as command stream to a shell. A construct like that was the parent of mounted-tmp runs I observed. So I assume this is the method to execute upstart scripts... but anyway.
And oh #2 @Steve: to make things even more fun it seems that the "does not reproduce" is not depending on the use of --write-state-file but on the fact that you have to interrupt the boot and then directly boot into the live mode instead of making that selection graphically...Even more fun it seems... Oddly it seems that in those cases the execve for init seems to use a different fd number than later calls of sh use for input. But again might be just fluke... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1464442 Title: installing or upgrading libc6 in Trusty removes all content from /tmp directory Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in upstart package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: We are seeing an issue with installation of dkms package during a curtin installation which ends up with /tmp directory being wiped clean. This is very bad for curtin as it saves critical installation files in /tmp. It turns out that it's the of upgrading libc6, which is triggered as a result of installing dependencies, that removes content of /tmp. For example, installation of gcc results in the same result since it ends up with libc6 being upgraded. The only way that this won't be recreated is if the latest libc6 is already installed. This problem does not exist in precise. It can also be recreated by installing the .deb file for any version in trusty including 2.17. ======================================================================== ubuntu@host:~$ ls /tmp tmpHHbRkP ubuntu@sirrush:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6 sudo: unable to resolve host sirrush Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc-dev-bin libc6-dev Suggested packages: glibc-doc Recommended packages: manpages-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 148 not upgraded. Need to get 6,714 kB of archives. After this operation, 6,144 B disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libc6-dev amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 [1,910 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libc-dev-bin amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 [68.9 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libc6 amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 [4,735 kB] Fetched 6,714 kB in 0s (18.5 MB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 57798 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc6-dev_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6-dev:amd64 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) over (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ... Preparing to unpack .../libc-dev-bin_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc-dev-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) over (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ... Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) over (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ... Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ... Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ... Setting up libc6-dev:amd64 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ... ubuntu@host:~$ ls /tmp ubuntu@host:~$ ======================================================================== This is very recreatable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1464442/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
