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

Sun Dec 9 13:14:03 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 08/12/12 12:25 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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 ?
+
+Actually yes, there is still a problem at present with /var on a
+separate partition... I need to look into that.
+
+Col
+
+
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