[Mageia-dev] UsrMove failure

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 14/08/12 20:18 did gyre and gimble:
> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 14/08/12 18:45 did gyre and gimble:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 14/08/12 18:32 did gyre and gimble:
>>> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 19:30, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>>> if you can wait, I'll try and suss out the problem and issue an
>>>> updated dracut package.
>>>
>>> I can wait.
>>
>> Actually, just in case I cannot reproduce, you can try the following:
>>
>> 1. cd
>> 2. mkdir foo
>> 3. /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D $HOME/foo bash
>>
>> This should just copy the bash binary to the foo tree. Nothing more.
>>
>> 4. find $HOME/foo -type f '(' -perm -0100 -or -perm -0010 -or -perm
>> -0001 ')' -print0 | xargs -r -0 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install --debug
>> -D $HOME/foo -R
>>
>>
>> This should install all the needed libs for bash.
>>
>> The output from step 4 and and "ls -lR $HOME/foo" at the end would be
>> interesting I think.
>>
>> I will still try and set this up at home when I get back from work tho'.
> 
> OK, I can reproduce the problem now in a VM. That said, the above stuff
> works fine... so go figure :s
> 
> I'll puzzle it out.

Thanks for your patience with this. I've now fixed the bugs in dracut,
so it *should* work a lot better now!

When dracut-023-3.mga3 hits the mirrors, just urpmi it and go through
the motions again and *hopefully* it'll be a lot smoother now :)

I've submitted the bugfixes upstream.

Col


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