Bug 615588

Summary: missing /etc/fstab during initial mkinitrd generation
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aschnell
Version: Factory   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Attachments: y2logmkinitrd
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Description Martin Wilck 2010-06-18 20:21:33 UTC
Created attachment 370203 [details]
y2logmkinitrd

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100527 SUSE/3.6.4-2.2 Firefox/3.6.4

At the end of the installation, a popup window told me that mkinitrd had failed because /etc/fstab was missing. This was indeed the case. I had to work around the problem by creating fstab by hand and re-running mkinitrd.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install OS11.3 RC1
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Actual Results:  
see description

Expected Results:  
mkinitrd succeeds

See attached log file:

/lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 257: /etc/fstab: No such file or directo
ry
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 278: /tmp/.bBNglv/pipe: No such file or 
directory

ReadMountPoints(): Failed to open /etc/fstab at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.0/Bootloader/Tools.pm line 192.

I don't know if fstab never existed, or if it was erroneously deleted at some point.

Unfotunately I also failed to check whether the initrd had been generated despite the error message.
Comment 1 Martin Wilck 2010-06-18 20:31:09 UTC
Created attachment 370205 [details]
y2log
Comment 2 Arvin Schnell 2010-06-19 15:49:02 UTC
You dicided to continue after an error occured while mounting the root
filesystem. Thus fstab was only written to some tmpfs.

The original problem looks like a duplicate of bug #598193.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 598193 ***