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From: Thomas Sigurdsen <thomas.sigurdsen@×××××.com>
To: me@×××.im
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:58:38
Message-Id: 5673E6B1.9040705@gmail.com
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4 The problems/strange state persists with mtab being a symlink and then
5 rebooting. Mtab stays a symlink through reboots too.
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7 > I wouldn't expect the symlink to fix anything without a reboot (since
8 > the main problem is at startup time). I'm not sure if the dbus issue
9 > is separate or not - if it is the same it seems odd that it won't
10 > start even after getting everything mounted by hand, anyway.
11 >
12 > -John Sent from my phone
13 >
14 > Thomas Sigurdsen <thomas.sigurdsen@×××××.com> wrote:
15 >
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18 >>> It seems to me the root of your problems is fsck failing because
19 >>> (it thinks) the partitions are already mounted.
20 >>>
21 >>> Is your mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts as it "should" be?
22 >>
23 >> Just checked, and mtab is not a symlink. It is a plain text file.
24 >>
25 >> Just tried takinga backup of mtab and symlinking /proc/mounts onto
26 >> /etc/mtab yields no different results when trying
27 >> `/etc/init.d/dbus start`. Is this something I fix somewhere else or
28 >> maybe I just need to reboot the system after symlinking.
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