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

Wed Dec 12 10:32:41 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 11/12/12 19:27 did gyre and gimble:
+>> > 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.
+
+Yeah those are just temporary names extracted from the package before
+being mv'ed into place (or rm'ed if a comparison shows they are
+identical to files/folders already present). They can be safely rm'ed now.
+
+Col
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