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

Tue Jul 24 11:25:07 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Barry Jackson at 24/07/12 10:15 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 24/07/12 07:21, Sander Lepik wrote:
+>> 24.07.2012 02:32, Barry Jackson kirjutas:
+>>> Updating an i586 Cauldron VM I am getting this:-
+>>> Preparing...
+>>> #########################################################################################################
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> 1/52: filesystem
+>>> #########################################################################################################
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/run: cpio: rename
+>>> failed - Is a directory
+>>> error: filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.i586: install failed
+>>>
+>>> This is at the start of --auto-update after the re-boot.
+>>>
+>> Is your /var on a separate partition? I had the same problem with
+>> /var/lock and /var/run. To solve this i had to rename those directories
+>> (later deleted them) and i created two symlinks /var/lock -> /run/lock
+>> and /var/run -> /run - after that filesystem installed w/o problems.
+>>
+>> -- 
+>> Sander
+>>
+>>
+> No, this is a single partition install in virtualbox that I use for
+> testing. I will look at those files later though - thanks.
+
+Did this happen after you ran the conversion process (i.e regenerate
+initrd with the convertfs module etc. etc.) or before?
+
+If before then it's quite worrying that it even let you try and install
+the package. If after, then I'm confused as to why they were not
+converted OK as part of that process (in this case do you have
+/var/run.runmove~ and /var/lock.lockmove~ files?)
+
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+
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