Fam problems & rc.sysinit

Question

Today i noticed when i started gnome the fam deamon disapeared.  I could restart the daemon, but when i started browsing through my filesystems with nautilus the fam daemon disapeared again.  When i started manually /usr/bin/fam -d (debug mode) i saw the fam deamon spawned a line about not finding 'root' and  then the deamon quitted . A permission problem was unlikely so it had to be a problem with the other "root" of a linux pc: the root of the filesystem (/).  I executed df and saw all my partitions showing up except one : "/". Checking fstab revealed the / mountpoint was defined, but checking mstab didn't have any / entry !!!
In the rc.sysinit file there is a block where / gets mounted read only (line 53) and remounted rw (line 82).  But the following line is interesting: after remounting / the mtab file gets deleted.  And since no remounting of the / filesystem is done after the deleting of mtab the root mountpoint never shows up in the mtab file.
I fixed this by remounting the / fs again right after the mtab deletion.
lines 81-86 of rc.sysinit
stat_busy "Mounting Local Filesystems"
/bin/mount -w -v -n -o remount /
/bin/rm -f /etc/mtab*
/bin/mount -w -o remount /
# re-mount /proc and /sys so they can be written to /etc/mtab
umount /proc && mount -t proc none /proc
An guess what: after this modifaction my fam daemon keeps running
Could someone check this out if this is a common problem?
Thx

Answer 1

Why you have:
/bin/mount -w -v -n -o remount /
and I only have:
/bin/mount -n -o remount,rw /
mmmmmmm, man mount:
-w  Mount the file system read/write. This is the default. A synonym is -o rw.
-v   Verbose mode.
cool.
did you change that or was it in default i your initscripts¿?