[vpsFree.cz: community-list] /dev/shm does not exist.

[Panagiotis Palias]

Thank you Jakube!
I am also not sure how did it happen, but after your recommendations it's
working properly now.
Have a good day!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 22:03, Jakub Skokan <jakub.skokan at vpsfree.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 7/24/19 9:41 AM, Panagiotis Palias wrote:
> > after recent upgrade to Debian Buster, pihole stopped working and from
> > the output of diagnostics `pihole -d` I can see the error:
> > *** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /dev/shm
> > /dev/shm does not exist.
> > ls: cannot access '/dev/shm': Too many levels of symbolic links
> >
> > Which is because of that:
> > trendy at vps:[~]$ls -la /dev/shm
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Ιουν 29 04:49 /dev/shm -> /run/shm
> > trendy at vps:[~]$ls -la /run/shm
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Ιουλ 21 11:18 /run/shm -> /dev/shm
> >
> > I believe this is not normal; does anyone know where they should point
> to?
>
> No idea what happened here, but when I look at /dev/shm on a newly
> created VPS, it's mounted as tmpfs. /run/shm is a symlink to /dev/shm
> just like on your VPS. So here's what you could try:
>
>    rm /dev/shm
>    mkdir /dev/shm
>    reboot
>
> Jakub
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