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

Mon Jul 23 21:08:12 CEST 2012

Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> writes:
+
+>> 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 have updated the command in the wiki to be:
+urpmi --auto-update --skip '/filesystem|ncurses/'
+(as I have pointed earlier in this thread)
+
+This will install a lot more packages (including kernel), before the
+/usr move.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+