varlock and varrun

[John Dangler]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:43 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I generated a minimal edgy system by debootstrap, copied that system to
> a machine with fresh formatted partitions and installed a kernel and a
> bootloader. After rebooting, the machine did not fully come up and I
> found out that the reason for that was that /var/lock and /var/run had
> not been mounted. After some investigation I found out that /var/lock
> and /var/run should be mounted by S01mountkernfs.sh and I wonder how
> that is possible when S35mountall.sh is run later, because the
> mountpoints /var/lock and /var/run cannot be present before mounting
> /var, what normally should be done by S35mountall.sh.
> 
> In spite of that, after a normal CD-installation the machine boots
> successfully. But I cannot find the significant difference between a
> CD-installation and my debootstrap-installation.
> 
> Does anybody know why mounting /var/lock and /var/run works ok after
> installing from CD?
> 
> Regards
>   Christoph
> 
Hrmm - does it load at the same init level?  I'm not sure that /var/run
is necessary for the boot of the machine... (or am I agreeing with you?)