svn commit: r293115 - head/etc

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Jan 3 19:28:06 UTC 2016


On 01/03/16 11:18, Warner Losh wrote:
> Log:
>   Use /bin/rm to remove /firstboot*. Otherwise rm -i alias is picked
>   up and can cause issues on boot with the prompts.

Huh, I never realized that could be a problem.

>   Fix the read-only
>   root case with horrible kludge of mounting rw removing the files, then
>   mounting ro.

The solution I intended when I introduced this (and used elsewhere) was to
set $firstboot_sentinel in /etc(/defaults)?/rc.conf.  This case is precisely
why it's a shell variable, in fact.

Colin Percival

> Modified: head/etc/rc
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/etc/rc	Sun Jan  3 19:06:17 2016	(r293114)
> +++ head/etc/rc	Sun Jan  3 19:18:48 2016	(r293115)
> @@ -131,11 +131,14 @@ done
>  
>  # Remove the firstboot sentinel, and reboot if it was requested.
>  if [ -e ${firstboot_sentinel} ]; then
> -	rm ${firstboot_sentinel}
> +	[ ${root_rw_mount} = "yes" ] || mount -uw /
> +	/bin/rm ${firstboot_sentinel}
>  	if [ -e ${firstboot_sentinel}-reboot ]; then
> -		rm ${firstboot_sentinel}-reboot
> +		/bin/rm ${firstboot_sentinel}-reboot
> +		[ ${root_rw_mount} = "yes" ] || mount -ur /
>  		kill -INT 1
>  	fi
> +	[ ${root_rw_mount} = "yes" ] || mount -ur /
>  fi
>  
>  echo ''

-- 
Colin Percival
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