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

Tue Dec 11 20:27:23 CET 2012

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:49:03PM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> '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:
+...
+> >> 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.
+...
+> >> 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?
+Yeah, I don’t see the point of having a separate usr so that one went
+smoothly. However, having a separate /var is useful even on a desktop
+for me, because of /var/cache/urpmi (I had aptitude fill my / on a
+safe-upgrade that ended up not being that safe once so I kinda became
+paranoid :p)
+> 
+> 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.
+> 
+That’s what I did indeed, then I could upgrade filesystem, thanks for
+the answer ;)
+> 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?)
+Can’t answer for that, most of the time I never shutdown my laptop, only
+pm-suspend.
+
+I should also mention that each try at installing filesystem resulted in
+a temporary symlink being created like: lock;50b68005. I assume these
+symlinks can safely be removed, just thought I would point that out.
+
+Thanks for your help !
+
+Regards,
+
+> 
+> Cheers
+> 
+> Col
+> 
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