Currently if /tmp (on the host) is a symlink, then the symlink is
copied into the appliance, probably pointing to a non-existent
directory, and everything goes downhill from there.
Avoid this by making sure that /tmp and /var/tmp are real directories.
---
appliance/init | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init
index 3c5ef1b..3973f18 100755
--- a/appliance/init
+++ b/appliance/init
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ RUNLEVEL=S
PREVLEVEL=N
export RUNLEVEL PREVLEVEL
+# Make sure /tmp /var/tmp are real directories, not symlinks.
+rm -f /tmp /var/tmp
+mkdir /tmp /var/tmp
+chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp
+
# Make sure to find all the libraries, also those in non-standard place
# but with a proper ld.so configuration pointing at them
ldconfig
--
2.3.1