[systemd-devel] systemd-update-utmp fails

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 14:46, Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, great! You should probably make the stuff in /var just links to
/run. Systemd will handle that fine.

Kay