Justin Pryzby <email address hidden> wrote:
> Indeed, I heard you the first two times, as, I suspect, did the other
> 83 people on the -rc ML.
>
> It is sometimes difficult to describe all the conditions leading up to
> a problem, so we appreciate your patience.
Having to repeat things a few times is a small price to pay for
software perfection. :)
> I have guessed that your /etc/mtab is a file, and not a symlink;
> indeed, many people, myself included, have mtab => /proc/mounts, and
> this bug almost certainly depends on mount detecting that mtab is a
> regular file and not a symlink.
>
> Could you confirm that your mtab is a regular file?
Justin Pryzby <email address hidden> wrote:
> Indeed, I heard you the first two times, as, I suspect, did the other
> 83 people on the -rc ML.
>
> It is sometimes difficult to describe all the conditions leading up to
> a problem, so we appreciate your patience.
Having to repeat things a few times is a small price to pay for
software perfection. :)
> I have guessed that your /etc/mtab is a file, and not a symlink;
> indeed, many people, myself included, have mtab => /proc/mounts, and
> this bug almost certainly depends on mount detecting that mtab is a
> regular file and not a symlink.
>
> Could you confirm that your mtab is a regular file?
It is.
$ ls -l /etc/mtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 436 2005-02-21 22:25 /etc/mtab
- Tyler