[OE-core] wic wks: data partition only mounted on second boot?

[Khem Raj]

> On May 24, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Anders Darander <anders at chargestorm.se> wrote:
> 
> * Matthijs Vader <mvader at victronenergy.com> [160523 13:37]:
> 
>> Hi again, fixed and found it myself already. There is an error while mounting that
>> partition on the first boot because the mount point (/data) doesn't exist yet.
>> Then, later during first boot, some application creates it. Which explains why
>> it does work on the second boot.
> 
>> Which brings me to a new question:
> 
>> Is there are reason for mountall.sh to put all errors into /dev/null? See:
>> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/mountall.sh#L20
> 
> Good question. To be honest, I don't know.

you need to ensure that wherever you want to route the logs to, should be mounted and ready for writing.
/dev/null is easiest.

> 
>> Or shall I send a -tiny- patch dropping that 2>/dev/null?
> 
> As long as it doesn't produce too much noise (i.e. errors on normal
> boots etc), sure do that. At least as long as you check that it goes
> into the syslog / journal.
> 
> That would probably help people debugging certain issues.
> 
> Cheers,
> Anders
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