[systemd-devel] /dev or /tmp disappears when program is running

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue Sep 8 07:05:34 PDT 2015


On Tue, 08.09.15 20:45, Steven Shiau (steven at nchc.org.tw) wrote:

> Dear systemd developers,
> I encountered a very weird issue, i.e. the /dev or /tmp disappears when
> program is running.
> The client system is nfsroot (diskless), running on the Debian Sid with
> Linux kernel 4.1.0-2-amd64. The PXE/NFS server is a Debian Live system
> running NFS server by unfs3 [1], its mounting status is attached as
> "server-table.txt", and the client's initial mounting status is attached
> as "client-table.txt". You can see /dev/ is mounted as devtmpfs. This is
> quite normal.
> When a system deployment program (clonezilla [2]) is run in the diskless
> client machine, suddenly the /dev/ is gone, as shown in the attached
> file "client-table-dev-missing.txt". You can see "/dev/" is missing. To
> narrow down the issue, I have switched to sysvinit, but still use
> systemd-udevd on this Debian Sid system.

What makes you think this is a systemd issue, and not a clonezilla issue?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


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