Bug#702102: Acknowledgement (fails to upgrade (cowbuilder) chroot)

Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
Wed Mar 20 21:27:22 UTC 2013


On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 15:25:26, Michael Biebl wrote:
> from IRC:
> 
> <jcristau> i ran into that one today, i think.  had to set a variable in
> pbuilderrc to tell it to not bother mounting shm
> <jcristau> iirc it tries to check whether /run/shm exists on the host to
> decide whether to use /dev/shm or /run/shm in the chroot
> <jcristau> which makes no sense at all
> 
> 
> That's the problem indeed. I don't have /run/shm (but /dev/shm), and
> pbuilder trips over that.

Symptoms match: I have /run/shm as well as /dev/shm, and both directories seem 
bound together.

  -- Chris

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