udev runs before /usr mounted

[lotus49]

I get errors on boot along the lines of:

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udevd[410]: failed to execute '/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh' '/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh 189 640 09': No such file or directory

This appears to be caused by udev running before /usr is mounted (I have /usr on a separate partition). I could move /usr/share/virtualbox elsewhere but I'd rather keep everything as standard as possible so I don't have to keep faffing around when I update VirtualBox.

Is there a neat solution to this problem? I cannot imagine I'm the only user to have /usr on a separate partition. This was logged as a bug 3 years ago and was supposed to have been fixed but, whatever the fix was, it clearly didn't work for me.

[Perryg]

I would reopen the ticket at bugtracker or create a new one by now since the time is so far back.

[lotus49]

Thanks for the suggestion but, having searched on Bugtracker, I see that someone else raised a ticked more recently (still two years ago) that is still open.

I ended up copying VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh to /lib/udev and editiing /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules so that it referred to the new location. This isn't pretty and may get over-written by an update but it does work for the time being.