[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Mon Jul 23 16:29:53 CEST 2012

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+On 23/07/12 15:24, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> On 22/07/12 11:42, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 
+> 
+>> I've clarified these instructions on the wiki:
+> 
+>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove#Release_Notes
+> 
+> 
+>> Feel free to augment them with better info as needed.
+> 
+> I now have a functioning system, but not without some
+> jiggery-pokery :-)  The good news, though, is that I can almost
+> certainly point to the problem and solution.
+> 
+> Normally I update my systems almost daily, but for reasons not 
+> relevant here, the netbook hasn't been switched on for about a
+> week, so there were a number of updates waiting.
+> 
+> I started with the full update, which failed, part-way through, as
+>  expected.  What I didn't realise, though, was that it had failed 
+> before updating the kernel (and, as it happens, half way through 
+> updating KDE which became unusable).
+> 
+> Basically I followed the hints you gave Charles, and finally got 
+> things running again.
+> 
+> I would suggest, then, that you make "update your kernel and
+> reboot" the very first instruction, before updating everything
+> else. Undoubtedly there will be others who, for whatever reason,
+> don't have the absolute latest kernel, and don't realise that an
+> update is needed.
+> 
+I forgot to add - I have no non-standard /usr, and I use grub, not lilo.
+
+Anne
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