[Mageia-dev] Failed to boot after /usr move

Tue Jul 24 10:44:04 CEST 2012

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> Do you mean "systemctl status cryptsetup.target"? If so I get the same
+> results here:
+> 
+> [colin at jimmy spec-helper]$ systemctl status cryptsetup.target
+> cryptsetup.target
+> 	  Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
+> 	  Active: inactive (dead)
+> 
+
+Exactly.
+ 
+> 
+> This generally happens when a unit refers to a target as a dep but the
+> target itself is not defined.
+> 
+> This target itself does seem to be AWOL in the systemd-units package.
+> Seems like an unintended (or at least unannounced) change in systemd
+> 187, so separate from the whole usr move thing, just related to a new
+> systemd version.
+> 
+> I'll investigate ASAP.
+
+Thanks, at time I workaround with "noauto" in my fstab and I mount it
+manually after boot.
+
+> >>> BTW: /var/run and /var/lock were not migrated and I had to do it by
+> >>> hand.
+> >>
+> >> This happens if /var is on a separate partition. Is this the case with
+> >> you? I'll have to think about how to handle that more gracefully.
+> > 
+> > It's the case.
+> 
+> 
+> Cool. Will have to work that one out then :s
+
+Can't the switch be done online a perl/python/c programme, eg once the
+programme is loaded everything can be done. Or by providing static
+binaries of mv/rm/ln ?
+
+My 2 cents.
+
+> 
+> Col
+> 
+> 
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