[Mageia-dev] UsrMove failure

Tue Aug 14 10:54:03 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 14/08/12 04:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> I haven't updated my cauldron in about two months or so. Mostly
+> because of a few threads warning not to update because of new this
+> and that which would reasult in crashing KDE or the like.
+
+There is a slight chicken and egg problem at the moment, but what you
+see here is expected. After you do the conversion you will likely get
+stuck with the more serious issue of not actually being able to update
+rpm to a version that understands the new check added to the filesystem
+package without also updating the filesystem package!
+
+Basically:
+
+ 1. install the latest dracut
+ 2. install the latest kernel
+ 3. reboot and make sure all is well.
+ 4. regenerate initrd as per instructions
+ 5. reboot with kernel command line params and convert the fs
+ 6. try an install the new rpm package. It will likely fail due to
+trying to also pull in the new filesystem package as part of the same
+transaction.
+ 7. If it fails, double check that the files /bin /sbin /lib /lib64
+/var/run /var/lock are all symlinks and then manually install filesystem
+package with --allow-nodeps
+
+The rest of the upgrade should go smoothly from there.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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