Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] /run not mounting on 3.7.10 kernel
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:58:27
Message-Id: 1367326695.4642.4.camel@fx8150.donahues.us.
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] /run not mounting on 3.7.10 kernel by Daiajo Tibdixious
1 On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 18:30 +1000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
2 > During the startup on 3.7.10 /run fails to mount with this error:
3 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on tmpfs, missing
4 > codepage or helper program, or other error
5 >
6 >
7 >
8 > Googling shows many people getting this error, and its something to do
9 > with openrc and moving from /var/run to /run.
10 >
11 >
12 > What I can't understand is why I can boot 3.7.9 without any problems,
13 > while 3.7.10 bombs. I have DEVTMPFS enabled in the kernel.
14 > Obviously there is something else wrong with my 3.7.10 kernel but I
15 > just can't figure what.
16 >
17 >
18 > Is /run supposed to be a physical directory? I thought it was supposed
19 > to be in ram. I got
20 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 5 14:13 /var/run -> /run
21 > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 360 Apr 30 18:17 /run
22 >
23 >
24 > Before the last upgrade of openrc (to 0.11.8) my 3.7.10 kernel was
25 > working fine.
26 mounting devtmpfs at /dev has helped some victims, menuconfig:
27 Device Drivers --->
28 Generic Driver Options --->
29 (/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper
30 [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
31 [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs