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Radu Moisan <radu.moisan-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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>>> Possibly because /run was a link created by the initscripts which
>>> are now disabled when systemd is the init manager. I'll look into
>>> this and update 00-create-volatile.conf so that systemd will handle
>>> the link creation in stead.
>> I wonder how my images booted...  initscripts is sysvinit specific,
>> the systemd startup should handle this somehow.
>>
>> (insert standard argument that we should adopt /run across all init
>> systems)

yes; that's the best way.  Make /var/run a symlink pointing to /run.


> This is exactly what I was looking for. /run shouldn't be there, yet
> somehow it is. I was looking into how/where systemd is creating /run
> but no lead for now.

/run is part of systemd's api and mounted very early internally by
systemd.  This mountpoint must exist in the filesystem and it will
probably not work when it is symlink into /var/volatile which gets
mounted later.


Enrico