Bug 77384

Summary:	/etc/rc.d/var uses commands from /usr/bin and /usr/sbin when /usr not yet mounted (diskless boot)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Ralf Wenk <RZ-FreeBSD1004>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	Brooks Davis <brooks>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	RZ-FreeBSD1004
Priority:	Normal
Version:	5.3-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Ralf Wenk 2005-02-11 11:50:12 UTC

When booting diskless the NFS filesystem for /usr is not mounted at the
time /etc/rc.d/var is executed. So there is no /usr/sbin/mtree,
/usr/sbin/newsyslog, /usr/bin/touch and /usr/bin/awk availiable.
See also problem report 77340.

Fix: 

As a workaround extend the root filesystem /usr directory with bin and sbin
directories and copy the neccesary files (mtree, touch, newsyslog and awk
(see pr 77340)) into them.
How-To-Repeat: Try a diskless boot and look at the output of the rc scripts.

Comment 1 Bob Bishop 2005-02-22 13:33:26 UTC

Aless messy workaround is to mount /usr in _populate_var() in rc.d/var.

Comment 2 Brooks Davis freebsd_committer

2005-03-02 02:19:56 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->patched

I've committed code to CURRENT today that removes the requirements for 
touch and newsyslog as well as code to try to mount /usr if mtree is 
needed.

Comment 3 Brooks Davis freebsd_committer

2005-03-02 02:19:56 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->brooks

I'm working on this stuff.

Comment 4 Matteo Riondato 2005-04-04 07:10:53 UTC

Can this change be MFCed ?
Thanks
Best Regards
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Comment 5 brooks 2005-04-04 07:32:30 UTC

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:10:53AM +0200, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> Can this change be MFCed ?


It's on my todo list, but I've got a couple more changes I want to make
in HEAD before I do an MFC of my recent changes to the diskless code.

-- Brooks

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Comment 6 Brooks Davis freebsd_committer

2005-10-31 20:01:59 UTC

State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Realisticly, I'm not likely to do the MFC to 5.x at this point. The 
problems are pretty much fixed in 6.0 and I don't have the time to test 
under 5.x. If you do need this MFCd, please request that the PR be 
reopened.