Bugs introduced in GNU/Hurd with the latest sysvinit packages.

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2019-01-23 23:07] Svante Signell <svante.signell at gmail.com>
> sysvinit: 2.93-4,5
> * Make /run/shm symlink to /dev/shm, not other way around (Closes: #851427)
>
> Boot messages:
> mkdir: Cannot create directory /dev/shm: File exists
>
> Mount point '/dev/shm' does not exist. Skipping mount.
> touch: cannot touch '/dev/shm/.tmpfs': Too many levels of symbolic links.
> Cleaning up temporary files... failed!
> startpar: service(s) returned failure: checkroot-bootclean.sh mountall-
> bootclean.sh mountnfs.sh ... failed!
>
> /run/shm is created by the hurd package, causing a conflict with initscripts.
> rgrep /run/shm /etc/hurd
> /etc/hurd/rc:mkdir -p /run/lock /run/shm
>
> dpkg -S /etc/hurd/rc
> hurd: /etc/hurd/rc
>
> - Either the creation of /run/shm in hurd should be removed or creation of the
> symbolic link /run/shm in initscripts should be removed for Hurd.
>
> /dev/shm is already a symbolic link to /run/shm:
> file /dev/shm
> /dev/shm: symbolic link to /run/shm
> ls -l /dev/shm
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 20  2017 /dev/shm -> /run/shm
>
> There are also problems cleaning out /tmp on a reboot as well as with tmpfs:
>
> cat /proc/mounts
> /dev/hd0s1 / ext2fs writable,no-inherit-dir-group,store-type=typed 0 0
> /dev/hd0s3 /part2 /hurd/ext2fs writable,no-inherit-dir-group 0 0
> /dev/hd0s2 /home /hurd/ext2fs writable,no-inherit-dir-group 0 0
> proc /proc /hurd/procfs defaults 0 0
> none /run /hurd/tmpfs writable,no-suid,no-exec,no-inherit-dir-group,no-
> sync,size=309120K 0 0
> none /run/lock /hurd/tmpfs writable,no-suid,no-exec,no-inherit-dir-group,no-
> sync,size=5M 0 0
> none /run/shm /hurd/tmpfs writable,no-suid,no-exec,no-inherit-dir-group,no-
> sync,size=852120K 0 0

I am sorry it happened. Right now I am struggling to get hurd VM up,
running and with working network. When I prevail, I will be able to make
a patch.

Given that Hurd is non-release architecture, would it be okay for you to
have these bugs resolved only in experimental, until Buster released?
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