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

[Anne Wilson]

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On 23/07/12 15:24, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On 22/07/12 11:42, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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 forgot to add - I have no non-standard /usr, and I use grub, not lilo.

Anne
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