[Bug 555780] [NEW] /var on separate partition fails at boot time

[Krzysztof Matusik]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

The problem is having /var on separate partition.

I suppose initramfs' initrd generation script can't handle the situation properly.
If I put /var separately in /etc/fstab (with correct copy of direcory tree of course) resulting system fails to boot.

This can be /var/run and /var/lock mounted during the initramfs boot phase mounted to root ( / ) tree instead of /var tree.
Therefore /var, if exists in fstab, should be mounted before /var/run and /var/lock in initramfs boot phase. Or /var/run and /var/lock should be binded to newly mounted /var again, somewhere at the end of boot phase. Well, I don't know the initramfs-tools so good...

rgs

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: all boot lucid

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/var on separate partition fails at boot time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555780
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