On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:42:55PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:53, Michael Olbrich <[email protected]> > wrote: > > systemd-update-utmp fails here like this: > > > > systemd-update-utmp[413]: Failed to write utmp record: No such file or > > directory > > > > I'm not sure why. /var/run/ is writable but for some reason /var/run/utmp > > is not created. If I touch /var/run/utmp before running systemd-update-utmp > > it works and /var/run/utmp is updated. > > I don't really know how this stuff works. Where is /var/run/utmp supposed > > to be created? > > # grep utmp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf > F /run/utmp 0664 root utmp - > f /var/log/wtmp 0664 root utmp - > f /var/log/btmp 0600 root utmp -
Ah, I see. I have an old tmpfs entry for /var/run in my fstab. After removing that, it works as expected. Thanks. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
