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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:33 am    Post subject: [solved]stale /tmp files not flushed Reply with quote

upon reboot i discover this system is not flushing /tmp out. i would mount bind it to /run/tmp but its got funky permissions. any ideas?

fstab
Code:

/dev/sda1      /      jfs      noatime      0 1
/swap         none      swap      sw      0 0


rc-update
Code:

       NetworkManager |      default                 
             bootmisc | boot                         
                devfs |                       sysinit
                dmesg |                       sysinit
                 fsck | boot                         
             hostname | boot                         
              hwclock | boot                         
              keymaps | boot                         
            killprocs |              shutdown       
                local |      default                 
           localmount | boot                         
             loopback | boot                         
              modules | boot                         
             mount-ro |              shutdown       
             netmount |      default                 
               procfs | boot                         
                 root | boot                         
            savecache |              shutdown       
                 swap | boot                         
            swapfiles | boot                         
               sysctl | boot                         
                sysfs |                       sysinit
         termencoding | boot                         
         tmpfiles.dev |                       sysinit
       tmpfiles.setup | boot                         
                 udev |                       sysinit
           udev-mount |                       sysinit
              urandom | boot                         
                  xdm |      default                 


init 2.88
openrc 12.4

since im JFS this cascades into other problems leaving the / read only and not setting host name.


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

grep wipe_tmp /etc/conf.d/bootmisc
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

same as the other known working system..... im stumped on this one....

Code:

# List of /tmp directories we should clean up
clean_tmp_dirs="/tmp"

# Should we wipe the tmp paths completely or just selectively remove known
# locks / files / etc... ?
wipe_tmp="YES"

# Write the initial dmesg log into /var/log/dmesg after boot
# This may be useful if you need the kernel boot log afterwards
log_dmesg="YES"


if i completely delete /tmp via rm -rf /tmp

the system can boot, next boot... then upon reboot it fails more. bootmisc fails to start but the rest of the system starts fine.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No Unix system should rely on reboot to accomplish anything. If you think there is something that has to be run periodically create a cronjob.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

it started after shutdown -h 30 last night, the problem is starting the machine. starting the machine fails unless /tmp is completely deleted the previous run of the os.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

666threesixes666 wrote:

if i completely delete /tmp via rm -rf /tmp

And bootmisc is not there to remove /tmp but to remove files in it. Did you check bootmisc is able to recreate /tmp before doing that ?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bootmisc has to fail at startup or another problem happens where it cant touch files in /tmp and stale files are still there. later on bootmisc creates the /tmp & populates on good runs.

touch /tmp/stalefile & shutdown -r now shows stalefile is still in /tmp


so right now sudo rc-service bootmisc status
* status: started
touch /tmp/stalefile && shutdown -r now

when it comes up unable to create something temp moves too fast read only (none): login prompt
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ebegin "Wiping $dir directory"

ebegin message, so you can just look at it when booting or enable rc log
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok with rc log enabled and a few things figured out....

some boot ordering is wrong for swap file setups, and jfs setups

Code:

* Checking local filesystems  ...
fsck.jfs version 1.1.15, 04-Mar-2011
processing started: 12/13/2013 23:51:52
The current device is:  /dev/sda1
Block size in bytes:  4096
Filesystem size in blocks:  78142798
**Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log
Filesystem is clean.
 [ ok ]
 * Activating swap devices ...
swapon: /swap: swapon failed: Read-only file system
 [ ok ]
 * Mounting local filesystems ...
 [ ok ]
 * Configuring kernel parameters ...
 [ ok ]
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp’: Read-only file system
 * failed to create needed directory /tmp
 [ !! ]
 * ERROR: bootmisc failed to start
 * Setting hostname to satan ...
 [ ok ]
 * Remounting root filesystem read/write ...



ok adding need root to swap & bootmisc init.d files has it booting consistantly now with no need to delete tmp.... now ill check if the original "stale files" still play in /tmp across boots...

(and thanks jaglover & krinn) (thanks again jaglover for swap file tip)
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