[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

Sat Dec 8 13:25:27 CET 2012

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:37:43PM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+[...]
+> So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2
+> core/updates_testing.
+[...]
+> 
+> Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup
+> etc. etc.
+> 
+> Col
+> 
+Hi Colin,
+
+I’ve followed the procedure and could upgrade my system from 2 to
+cauldron, but I still have an issue with the filesystem package.
+
+Somehow it seems like it fails to move /var/run to /run and /var/lock to
+/run/lock.
+
+I would be glad if there could be a workaround for this.
+Here is a debug output of urpmi:
+# export LC_ALL=C
+# export LANG=C
+# urpmi --debug filesystem
+error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lock: cpio: rename
+failed - Is a directory
+error: filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.x86_64: install failed
+error: filesystem-2.1.9-17.mga2.x86_64: erase skipped
+unlocking urpmi database
+unlocking rpm database
+EXITING (pid=11661)
+
+The only way out I think would be to manually do the symlink from
+another install.
+
+Could you confirm that ?
+
+Thanks in advance,
+
+Regards,
+> -- 
+> 
+> Colin Guthrie
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