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

Sun Dec 9 19:49:03 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/12/12 12:14 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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.
+
+So the latest package should mount /var in the initrd in much the same
+way it does with /usr (not exactly the same but I want to make the
+changes as unobtrusive as possible and ideally separate from the main
+dracut package for convenience of updating).
+
+I presume your setup is such that /var is indeed on a separate partition?
+
+In order to fix this, simply mv the folders out the way and just do the
+symlinks manually - it'll mess up the current boot, but a reboot should
+fix it.
+
+If the symlinks disappear and are replaced again by folders, then also
+make sure you disable mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service as it
+helpfully nukes the symlinks (the update does this but perhaps it's
+somehow been run/re-enabled?)
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+
+
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+
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