Bug 105331

Summary: Empty file /success
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Christian Boltz <suse-beta>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: /var/log/messages

Description Christian Boltz 2005-08-17 21:14:23 UTC 
After updating to 10.0 beta1, I found an empty file /success on my harddisk. 
 
Who or what is creating this file? 
Should it stay there intentional or is its deletion just forgotten?
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-18 07:21:59 UTC 
Please attatch y2logs and timestamp of that file.
Comment 2 Christian Boltz 2005-08-18 12:31:30 UTC 
# ls -l success 
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 2005-08-15 21:04 success 
 
I doubt that it has something to do with YaST - nearly every file 
in /var/log/YaST2 is two days older. Only y2start.log is newer that /success. 
Aditionally, I found the problem in an init script, so: no y2logs this 
time ;-) 
 
I'll attach /var/log/messages instead - please note it ends at Aug 15 21:03:56 
with a reboot (init 6). (I didn't start 10.0 beta since then.) 
 
One moment... 
# grep "/success" /etc/init.d/* 
 
Found it: It's in /etc/init.d/halt (and its symlink /etc/init.d/reboot) 
in line 67: 
    # Set a flag that we had success upto this point 
    > /success 
 
It seems the / filesystem is still mounted writeable at this moment...
Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2005-08-18 12:33:42 UTC 
Created attachment 46471 [details]
/var/log/messages
Comment 4 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-18 12:41:57 UTC 
So the file is in fact a flag and will also be removed in boot.localfs.
Everything is fine.