FS#20912 - pacman: stop remounting according to /etc/fstab, honour current mount options

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by mark (mmm) - Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 03:37 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 13:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Backend/Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.4.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
pacman keeps remounting partitions as specified in fstab, not honouring current local mount options.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
latest [testing]
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
set some partition(eg. /boot) ro in fstab, remount accordingly. Now manually remount /boot to rw, run pacman -Syu , /boot will be ro again! ...it keeps remounting the partitions as specified in fstab, this is very annoying for ro /boot and is unnecessary I think.

Temp workaround: set /boot rw in fstab
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 13:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 04:02 GMT
Umm... pacman does not unmount/remount anything. In fact, it has no idea about your partition layout of /etc/fstab. Are you sure your manual remounting of /boot to rw succeeds?
Comment by mark (mmm) - Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 13:04 GMT
I'm very sorry now. I checked with going to single user mode and couldn't reproduce. So it's not pacman's fault but rather some nasty deamon. Once again my apologies and thank you.

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