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title="RESOLVED FIXED - boot failure if /var/run is not a symlink to /run , dbus should create its socket in /run not /var/run"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75515#c6">Comment # 6</a>
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bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED FIXED - boot failure if /var/run is not a symlink to /run , dbus should create its socket in /run not /var/run"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75515">bug 75515</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:kay@vrfy.org" title="Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>"> <span class="fn">Kay Sievers</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=75515#c4">comment #4</a>)
<span class="quote">> Ah, this was all part of /usr merge? If the dracut hook for that handles it,
> then it usually should be fine.
>
> For historical interest: I upgrade with yum (well, these days I use fedup,
> but at the time I used yum because the old upgrade methods stank), and the
> F16->F17 upgrade notes for yum upgraders say this:
>
> If you have /var on a separate partition, you will have to manually convert
> "/var/run" and "/var/lock" to a symbolic link.
>
> # mv -f /var/run /var/run.runmove~
> # ln -sfn ../run /var/run
> # mv -f /var/lock /var/lock.lockmove~
> # ln -sfn ../run/lock /var/lock
>
> So, it sounds like that note is wrong: you need to do it manually even if
> /var is *not* a separate partition. (It's not for me).</span >
The dracut upgrade module did that conversion, it could only not reach the
directories to convert if /var was separate. So the text should be right.
No idea how that did not apply to your box:
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/30convertfs/convertfs.sh#n24">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/30convertfs/convertfs.sh#n24</a></pre>
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