[Bug 523484] Re: ureadahead requires /var on root filesystem

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 14:00 +0000, Pavel Malyshev wrote:
> Four years passed...
> What is the point to use LTS releases if such pure-Ubuntu bugs are not fixed fore years?

I asked myself that same question a while ago.  This was my
conclusion/solution:

$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Kernel \r on an \m (\l)

Not that I think Canonical/Ubuntu cares that I no longer use Ubuntu.
>From what I can see, it seems they are focused on TVs and mobile devices
now anyway and what's on the desktop is just a test ground for their
real markets and whatever they don't need in those markets just doesn't
get attention on the desktop any more.

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Title:
  ureadahead requires /var on root filesystem

Status in über-readahead:
  Invalid
Status in “ureadahead” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I have the following mountpoints defined that use different
  partitions:

  /
  /boot
  /home
  /opt
  /usr
  /var

  These nodes are located on different partitions to enable greater control over the system and prevent unusable states.
  ureadahead.conf uses the following event:
    start on starting mountall
  Which fails for me since /var is not yet mounted when mountall starts leading to ureadahead errors about missing pack files.

  ureadahead-other.conf in turn uses
    start on mounted DEVICE=[/UL]* MOUNTPOINT=/?
  I have yet to find out what that means but I see that ureadahead-other is terminated with error status 4 (i.e. no pack file)

  I think that ureadahead configuration files should be ready for such kind of layout.
  I have fixed the first item by rewriting the rule as start on mounted MOUNTPOINT=/var but I don't know what to do with second item.

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