[systemd-devel] systemd-update-utmp fails

[Michael Olbrich]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:42:55PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:53, Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > systemd-update-utmp fails here like this:
> >
> > systemd-update-utmp[413]: Failed to write utmp record: No such file or directory
> >
> > I'm not sure why. /var/run/ is writable but for some reason /var/run/utmp
> > is not created. If I touch /var/run/utmp before running systemd-update-utmp
> > it works and /var/run/utmp is updated.
> > I don't really know how this stuff works. Where is /var/run/utmp supposed
> > to be created?
> 
> # grep utmp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf
> F /run/utmp 0664 root utmp -
> f /var/log/wtmp 0664 root utmp -
> f /var/log/btmp 0600 root utmp -

Ah, I see. I have an old tmpfs entry for /var/run in my fstab. After
removing that, it works as expected. Thanks.

Michael

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