[systemd-bugs] [Bug 75515] boot failure if /var/run is not a symlink to /run , dbus should create its socket in /run not /var/run

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75515

--- Comment #6 from Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> 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).

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:
 
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/30convertfs/convertfs.sh#n24

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