Overlay not mounted when booting without network

After boot without network, overlay is visible but not correctly mounted:

-- Boot c535a3307ce34a8aa033707fee292832 --
Aug 14 11:39:16 rakuos systemd[1]: Starting rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount...
Aug 14 11:39:16 rakuos rakuos-overlay-mount[558]: RakuOS overlay: var directory not found — not an installed system, skipping.
Aug 14 11:39:16 rakuos systemd[1]: Finished rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount.
╰─❮ ll /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad
.rwxr-xr-x root root 5.3 MB Mon Jun 15 10:11:19 2026  /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad*
╰─❮ ll /usr/bin/mullvad
lsd: /usr/bin/mullvad: No such file or directory (os error 2).

After boot with network it is:

-- Boot 6cf3a09d4b7b41728037fd8ba317f78b --
Aug 14 11:47:21 rakuos systemd[1]: Starting rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount...
Aug 14 11:47:21 rakuos rakuos-overlay-mount[557]: RakuOS overlay: var directory not found — not an installed system, skipping.
Aug 14 11:47:21 rakuos systemd[1]: Finished rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount.
╰─❮ ll /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad
.rwxr-xr-x root root 5.3 MB Mon Jun 15 10:11:19 2026  /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad*
╰─❮ ll /usr/bin/mullvad
.rwxr-xr-x root root 5.3 MB Mon Jun 15 10:11:19 2026  /usr/bin/mullvad*

● Booted image: quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-niri-v3:latest
       Digest: sha256:c1e54989e291f33b68d65479a2eb86da866cc7c9b72aa0e27bafb5d035511e02 (amd64)
      Version: latest.20260809 (2026-08-09T07:56:40Z)

DaCa wrote:
After boot without network, overlay is visible but not correctly mounted:-- Boot c535a3307ce34a8aa033707fee292832 --Aug 14 11:39:16 rakuos systemd[1]: Starting rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount...Aug 14 11:39:16 rakuos rakuos-overlay-mount[558]: RakuOS overlay: var directory not found — not an installed system, skipping.Aug 14 11:39:16 rakuos systemd[1]: Finished rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount.╰─❮ ll /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad.rwxr-xr-x root root 5.3 MB Mon Jun 15 10:11:19 2026  /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad*╰─❮ ll /usr/bin/mullvadlsd: /usr/bin/mullvad: No such file or directory (os error 2).After boot with network it is:-- Boot 6cf3a09d4b7b41728037fd8ba317f78b --Aug 14 11:47:21 rakuos systemd[1]: Starting rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount...Aug 14 11:47:21 rakuos rakuos-overlay-mount[557]: RakuOS overlay: var directory not found — not an installed system, skipping.Aug 14 11:47:21 rakuos systemd[1]: Finished rakuos-overlay-mount.service - RakuOS Overlay Mount.╰─❮ ll /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad.rwxr-xr-x root root 5.3 MB Mon Jun 15 10:11:19 2026  /var/lib/rakuos/overlay/upper/bin/mullvad*╰─❮ ll /usr/bin/mullvad.rwxr-xr-x root root 5.3 MB Mon Jun 15 10:11:19 2026  /usr/bin/mullvad*● Booted image: quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-niri-v3:latest        Digest: sha256:c1e54989e291f33b68d65479a2eb86da866cc7c9b72aa0e27bafb5d035511e02 (amd64)       Version: latest.20260809 (2026-08-09T07:56:40Z)

Alright I will start testing this on staging to see if  rum fixes this since now everything is split unlike dnf if not will try figure on whats going on

any update?

After a reinstall from iso I don't have this problem anymore.

Ticket can be closed.

DaCa wrote:
After a reinstall from iso I don't have this problem anymore.

Ticket can be closed.

Thats great to hear sadly I think alot of folk will need to reinstall because think possibly many have ran some destructive dnf commands on their system prior to  the release of rum as these sorts of issues were found  on staging from such, thankfully  this should not happen going forward as  everything in rum is not destructive in Overlay mode even the  dnf compatible commands