[Bug 854018] Re: Postinst fails to migrate /var/run and /var/lock directories on upgrade from natty.

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Postinst fails to migrate /var/run and /var/lock directories on
  upgrade from natty.

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  base-files.postinst contains the function migrate_directory, which
  should replace /var/{run,lock} with symlinks to /run and /run/lock
  doing a "rmdir; ln -s". This fails, as both directories are tmpfs
  mounts on Natty and can't be simply rmdir'ed without umounting their
  tmpfs in advance.

  On next boot several services fail, because they write their data to
  /run but look for the data in /var/run (dbus, rpcbind).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: base-files 6.4ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature:
   
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38.2-jmg i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Sep 19 18:41:07 2011
  Dependencies:
   
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: base-files
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-11 (8 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.nsswitch.conf: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.profile: [modified]
  mtime.conffile..etc.nsswitch.conf: 2007-11-10T15:05:31
  mtime.conffile..etc.profile: 2011-09-11T14:06:19

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