#11078 NORM Future : minicom, lockdev and screen don't work after reboot due to rwtab tmpfs mounts (was: Directories in tmpfs owned by fedora packages are lost on reboot)

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#11078: minicom, lockdev and screen don't work after reboot due to rwtab tmpfs
mounts
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           Reporter:  martin.langhoff  |       Owner:  dsd           
               Type:  defect           |      Status:  new           
           Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
          Component:  distro           |     Version:  not specified 
         Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                
        Next_action:  never set        |    Verified:  0             
Deployment_affected:                   |   Blockedby:                
           Blocking:                   |  
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Changes (by dsd):

  * milestone:  11.3.0 => Future Release


Comment:

 Using (e.g.):

  rpm -qa --filesbypkg | grep var.*tmp

 (and similarly for the other directories that are put in tmpfs by this
 feature) I couldn't really identify any problems. Yes, there are quite a
 few packages installed which put things in these directories (especially
 for /var/run), but we rarely see any negative effects of this issue.
 Packages generally deal with that fine.

 We do have the 3 cases of failure: minicom, lockdev, and screen(unless run
 as root), so I'll leave this ticket open. These cases could be fixed in
 Fedora 14, or we could wait til we rebase on future Fedora releases.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11078#comment:4>
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