Re: [vserver] FUSE reFUSEs to install

From: Thomas Weber <l_vserver_at_mail2news.4t2.com>
Date: Fri 15 Jan 2010 - 19:10:37 GMT
Message-ID: <1263582637.5937.113.camel@morgoth.abyss.4t2.com>

Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 11:10 -0500 schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
> I think that is exactly right. We have had FUSE running successfully
> before. It appears to be the installation scripts insistence that it
> access sysfs because it finds udev.
>
> But how do we get it to not find udev? I did remove all links
> to /etc/init.d/udev in all the rcX.d directories and restarted the
> guest.
>
> vdbase:/etc# ls rc?.d/*udev*
> ls: cannot access rc?.d/*udev*: No such file or directory
>
> vdbase:/# cd /etc/init.d
> vdbase:/etc/init.d# ./udev status
> udev requires a mounted sysfs, not started. failed!
> failed!

as i said, make /etc/init.d/udev return 0 no matter how it's called and
you should be fine.

> Yet:
> Setting up fuse-utils (2.7.4-1.1) ...
> creating fuse group...
> udev active, skipping device node creation.
> udev requires a mounted sysfs, not started. failed!
> failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "reload" failed.

fuse-utils probably calls /etc/init.d/udev reload directly after
installation and there it fails.

> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 17:01 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > well, i have sshfs/fuse running in an ubuntu karmic guest without /sys
> > mounted and without udev running, don't see why this shouldn't work in
> > lenny either.
> >
> > I think it's udev that fails because /sys isn't there.
> > And fuse fails because udev failed.
> > What would udev be good for in a guest anyway? Disable it's startup
> > scripts, just let them return 0 for a restart/reload and you should be
> > fine.
> >
> > Tom
> >
Received on Fri Jan 15 19:11:06 2010

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