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[Andy Sayler <andy.sayler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The findmnt command from util-linux only displays /dev/pts when run on a
Ubuntu Truty install using the 3.16 Utopic kernel:

$ findmnt
TARGET   SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/dev/pts devpts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000

This is true on both fresh Ubuntu 14.04.2 installs as well as Ubuntu
14.04.1 installs with the kernel upgraded to 'linux-generic-lts-utopic'.
The same command works correctly on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.1 install with
the original 3.13 kernel. Also, the command seems to work correctly in
the Ubuntu 14.04.2 liveboot environment, but not after rebooting into a
fresh Ubuntu 14.04.2 install.

According to the discussion in the comments at
http://lwn.net/Articles/634263/, this seems to be a known bug in util-
linux due to a 3.14 kernel chnage. The util-linux bug has been fixed
upstream:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/8557/focus=8558
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=6c373810f5b1d32824371e9dff6ee5a006388f98

The updated version of util-linux, however, is not available in the
Trusty repos.

Can we get the upstream fix backported into the Trusty-version of util-
linux? Or better yet, should there be a 'util-linux-lts-utopic' package
that tracks the newer versions of util-linux matched to the newer LTS
kernel versions? It seems that as long as Ubuntu is going to supply LTS
Enablement Stack kernels, it also needs to supply LTS-variants of user-
space packages that closely track the kernel like util-linux. Other
examples of similar scenarios also come to mind (e.g. btrfs-tools, etc).

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424747

Title:
  findmnt only displays /dev/pts on Trusty w/ Utopic Kernel (14.04.2)

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The findmnt command from util-linux only displays /dev/pts when run on
  a Ubuntu Truty install using the 3.16 Utopic kernel:

  $ findmnt
  TARGET   SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
  /dev/pts devpts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000

  This is true on both fresh Ubuntu 14.04.2 installs as well as Ubuntu
  14.04.1 installs with the kernel upgraded to 'linux-generic-lts-
  utopic'. The same command works correctly on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.1
  install with the original 3.13 kernel. Also, the command seems to work
  correctly in the Ubuntu 14.04.2 liveboot environment, but not after
  rebooting into a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.2 install.

  According to the discussion in the comments at
  http://lwn.net/Articles/634263/, this seems to be a known bug in util-
  linux due to a 3.14 kernel chnage. The util-linux bug has been fixed
  upstream:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/8557/focus=8558
  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=6c373810f5b1d32824371e9dff6ee5a006388f98

  The updated version of util-linux, however, is not available in the
  Trusty repos.

  Can we get the upstream fix backported into the Trusty-version of
  util-linux? Or better yet, should there be a 'util-linux-lts-utopic'
  package that tracks the newer versions of util-linux matched to the
  newer LTS kernel versions? It seems that as long as Ubuntu is going to
  supply LTS Enablement Stack kernels, it also needs to supply LTS-
  variants of user-space packages that closely track the kernel like
  util-linux. Other examples of similar scenarios also come to mind
  (e.g. btrfs-tools, etc).

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