FS#15292 - [pmount] 0.9.19-3 package missing required directory

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Stefan Schneider-Kennedy (splondike) - Sunday, 28 June 2009, 09:20 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 28 June 2009, 12:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The pmount program requires the /var/lock/ directory to be writable in order to mount a device. This directory does not exist in a normal Arch install and is not created when the package is installed. The following error is given when trying pmount without the required directory:

lock_dir(): creat: No such file or directory
Error: could not lock the mount directory. Another pmount is probably running for this mount point.

Additional info:

* See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=16841 for some additional background.
* The directory is not created by running pmount as root.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 28 June 2009, 12:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 28 June 2009, 12:05 GMT
/var/lock is included in the filesystem package and has 1777 permissions.

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