[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: Bug#586333: Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:34:40AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Version 1.4.5-1 which will be uploaded shortly contains four
> configuration profiles: minimal, default, desktop and sbuild.
> If you could possibly test the "desktop" profile to see if this
> fixes your problem and works OK with gdm3 and common desktop
> applications, I'd really appreciate it.

Uhm, I come with bad news. I've played a bit with it and it does not
work, whereas it worked with the past schroot by changing the used
fstab. The symptom is that I got an empty /var/run/gdm3/ and I haven't
yet understood why. The /var/run fstab entry is there, the gdm3
directory in it is there, but it's empty for some reason. Also the other
stuff which is in /var/run is not quite the same that I've in the real
machine.

It seems that either some bogus dir is mounted in place of /var/run or
that it gets overwritten (i.e. overmounted) later on by some other
setup/exec script. I've tried with both simply changing the default
mount symlink to the desktop profile and later on by switching all the
default symlinks to their desktop equivalent.

Unfortunately I don't have time right now to debug it any further, but I
presume it's easy to reproduce. If not, I'll be more relax to have a
look at this next week, not earlier I fear.

In the meantime I believe this bug should be reopened, but I leave that
up to you.

Another suggestion: please mention the addition of profile support in
README or README.Debian and maybe even in NEWS.Debian. IMHO it is quite
important and it took me a while before finding out that it was
documented in the schroot.conf(5) manpage.

Many thanks for your work, it's a pleasure to work with such a reactive
maintainer :-)

Cheers.

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