[Mageia-dev] UsrMove failure

Tue Aug 14 17:10:43 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 14/08/12 14:58 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 15:14, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> Can I ask what version of dracut you are using? It should be 023 now but
+>> perhaps it could not be installed for some reason? I've not tested the
+>> conversion with dracut 023, but AFAICS there are no real changes to the
+>> script itself.
+>>
+>> Also after booting, does "lsinitrd | grep convert" confirm that you do
+>> indeed have the convert script in the initrd?
+> 
+> (17:50:05) [solbu at cauldron ~]$ rpm -qa dracut
+> dracut-023-2.mga3
+> (17:50:14) [solbu at cauldron ~]$ lsinitrd |grep convert
+> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          304 Aug 14 15:06 lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99-do-convertfs.sh
+> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8031 Aug 14 15:06 usr/bin/convertfs
+
+OK, colour me confused... :s
+
+Everything looks in place. The kernel modules, the initrd, the kernel
+command line. It just doesn't seem to actually happen :s
+
+I'll fire up an old VM tonight to test this and see if I can reproduce.
+I may have to come back to you if I cannot get it done.
+
+It should be quite safe to run "convertfs /sysroot" after the first exit
+(with rd.break=pre-pivot) but I *really* want to figure out why it's
+just not working.
+
+Just so I can pick the right VM, what's your disk layout? ext3/4? /usr
+on a separate partition or not?
+
+(/me is now wondering if the "rw" command line option is enough to mount
+/ rw... perhaps that's what changed - even still you should have gotten
+an error message about it after the first exit with rd.break...)
+
+
+>> I guarantee the cause will be a weird little trivial thing, but it'll be
+>> one of those annoying ones that take a while to show themselves!! I hate
+>> those bugs :p
+> 
+> In Norway there is a saying which goes something like this; 
+> 	a small tuft of grass can bring down a big load. ;-)=
+> 
+
+:)
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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