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From: John Runyon <me@×××.im>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:39:45
Message-Id: imjgolrjh15esftsdt7j2i4c.1449956200815@email.android.com
1 I wouldn't expect the symlink to fix anything without a reboot (since the main problem is at startup time). I'm not sure if the dbus issue is separate or not - if it is the same it seems odd that it won't start even after getting everything mounted by hand, anyway.
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3 -John
4 Sent from my phone
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6 Thomas Sigurdsen <thomas.sigurdsen@×××××.com> wrote:
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11 >> It seems to me the root of your problems is fsck failing because (it
12 >> thinks) the partitions are already mounted.
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14 >> Is your mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts as it "should" be?
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16 >Just checked, and mtab is not a symlink. It is a plain text file.
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18 >Just tried takinga backup of mtab and symlinking /proc/mounts onto
19 >/etc/mtab yields no different results when trying `/etc/init.d/dbus
20 >start`. Is this something I fix somewhere else or maybe I just need to
21 >reboot the system after symlinking.
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