Opened 13 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#10404 closed defect (wontfix)
udev rules want to access not mounted /usr -> can be solved with manual fix
| Reported by: | DanielDuesentrieb | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.10 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Hello,
I am using the Virtualbox Debian package for wheezy.
During boot I get the message from udev that the script
- /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh
can not be found. At this moment the /usr partition is not mounted. I have contacted the Debian udev maintainer:
-http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666928
He suggests a solution similar to the bluez package described here:
It is planned to modify the appropriate Virtualbox postinstall script accordingly?
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
This bug is really a nuisance in in Wheezy since most installations have a seperate /usr partition. Can we please fix it the way it's implemented in the official debian repo, where VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh is located in /lib/udev.
Best Regards / Bjarne
comment:3 by , 10 years ago
Any idea how udev would react if the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-virtualbox.rules were a symbolic link into /usr/share/VirtualBox, and thus available or not available when /usr/share/VirtualBox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh is?
comment:4 by , 9 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | udev rules want to access not mounted /usr → udev rules want to access not mounted /usr -> can be solved with manual fix |
I'm afraid this will probably not get changed. It seems that these days having a separate /usr partition is not supported by the large distributions<1> (I tried the test on my Ubuntu system too, and I assume that applies to Debian too these days), and by that logic a user wishing to have it anyway will need to be ready to do manual work. As you point out, this issue can already be solved with a little manual work, but I suspect it is no longer an issue for you either.
<1> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/
A short amendment:
Another solution would be to move
to
and modify the path in
accordingly. To use a seperate /usr partition is recommended in a Debian Install Documentation, I think it would be reasonable to adapt the Debian post install script in the next release.