[Lxc-users] Ubuntu 12.04: initscripts.postinst

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Stéphane Graber (stgraber at ubuntu.com):
> On 06/15/2012 09:10 AM, Papp Tamas wrote:
> > hi All,
> > 
> > I upgraded initscripts package:
> > 
> > # apt-get install initscripts
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Recommended packages:
> >    psmisc
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >    initscripts
> > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 27.8 kB of archives.
> > After this operation, 1024 B of additional disk space will be used.
> > Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main initscripts amd64 
> > 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11 [27.8 kB]
> > Fetched 27.8 kB in 0s (1166 kB/s)
> > (Reading database ... 11725 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to replace initscripts 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu10 (using 
> > .../initscripts_2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11_amd64.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement initscripts ...
> > Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
> > Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11) ...
> > mount: block device /dev/shm is write-protected, mounting read-only
> > mount: cannot mount block device /dev/shm read-only
> > dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
> >   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >   initscripts
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If I change line #48:
> > 
> >                  if mount -t $FSTYPE "$SRC" "$DEST" $OPTS ; then
> > to
> > 
> >                  if ! mount -t $FSTYPE "$SRC" "$DEST" $OPTS ; then
> > 
> > It's OK. But it's of course is not usable solution.
> > What would be it?
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > tamas
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The logic in initscripts postinst is indeed a bit broken, Serge has been
> looking at fixing it, not sure how far he got.

That's actually a bit different.  See http://pad.lv/974584 .  I'm looking
at the case of being in a chroot (for debootstrap).  Papp is running it
in a container, so the !chroot case.

This may just be an apparmor denial?

> In the mean time, you should be able to workaround it by essentially
> doing initscripts' job for it:
>  - rmdir /dev/shm
>  - ln -s /run/shm /dev/shm
> 
> Then run the upgrade and it should succeed.
> 
> -- 
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com
> 



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