[Mageia-dev] UsrMove failure

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 14/08/12 14:58 did gyre and gimble:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 15:14, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Can I ask what version of dracut you are using? It should be 023 now but
>> perhaps it could not be installed for some reason? I've not tested the
>> conversion with dracut 023, but AFAICS there are no real changes to the
>> script itself.
>>
>> Also after booting, does "lsinitrd | grep convert" confirm that you do
>> indeed have the convert script in the initrd?
> 
> (17:50:05) [solbu at cauldron ~]$ rpm -qa dracut
> dracut-023-2.mga3
> (17:50:14) [solbu at cauldron ~]$ lsinitrd |grep convert
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          304 Aug 14 15:06 lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99-do-convertfs.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8031 Aug 14 15:06 usr/bin/convertfs

OK, colour me confused... :s

Everything looks in place. The kernel modules, the initrd, the kernel
command line. It just doesn't seem to actually happen :s

I'll fire up an old VM tonight to test this and see if I can reproduce.
I may have to come back to you if I cannot get it done.

It should be quite safe to run "convertfs /sysroot" after the first exit
(with rd.break=pre-pivot) but I *really* want to figure out why it's
just not working.

Just so I can pick the right VM, what's your disk layout? ext3/4? /usr
on a separate partition or not?

(/me is now wondering if the "rw" command line option is enough to mount
/ rw... perhaps that's what changed - even still you should have gotten
an error message about it after the first exit with rd.break...)


>> I guarantee the cause will be a weird little trivial thing, but it'll be
>> one of those annoying ones that take a while to show themselves!! I hate
>> those bugs :p
> 
> In Norway there is a saying which goes something like this; 
> 	a small tuft of grass can bring down a big load. ;-)=
> 

:)

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