[Mageia-discuss] troubles with update ended with totally dead system.

Maarten Vanraes alien at rmail.be
Wed Sep 21 20:05:50 CEST 2011


Op woensdag 21 september 2011 11:32:24 schreef Claire Robinson:
> On 21/09/11 02:52, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > I do not know if it could be seen as a kind of a contribution...
> > 
> > I installed Mageia 1 almost as soon as it was released for evaluation
> > purposes on Dell Latitude d820. Mine is a multiboot environment with
> > several distros like Ubuntu Lucid, Fedora 15, Arch, SL 6.1, and a couple
> > of others installed.
> > 
> > I kept playing with it from time to time (my main systems for now are
> > Ubuntu Lucid on laptop, and Debian Squeeze on my workstation). I should
> > say I was quite impressed, especially considering short time Mageia
> > exists.
> > 
> > Then troubles started. On one of next system updates I had these:
> > 
> > Sorry, the following packages cannot be selected:
> > 
> > - kdebase4-runtime-4.6.5-1.1.mga1.i586 (due to conflicts with soprano-
> > plugin-virtuoso-2.6.0-0.1.mga1.i586)
> > - kipi-plugins-expoblending-1.9.0-3.1.mga1.i586
> > - task-kde4-4.6.5-0.mga1.noarch
> > - task-kde4-minimal-4.6.5-0.mga1.noarch (due to conflicts with soprano-
> > plugin-virtuoso-2.6.0-0.1.mga1.i586)
> > 
> > google provided with one link only. It was Mageia forum, not exactly my
> > case but had enough to be considered helpful.
> > 
> > 'rpm -e --nodeps  soprano-plugin-virtuoso' revealled the plugin was not
> > installed at all. A little weird, update conflicting with a not installed
> > packages, "never mind" I said.
> > 
> > After run 'urpmi soprano-plugin-virtuoso' and installing the plugin I
> > happily get get rid of almost all the above warnings. But still had this
> > one:
> > 
> > Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:
> > 
> > - kipi-plugins-expoblending-1.9.0-3.1.mga1.i586
> > 
> > Well, that was quite a progress.
> > 
> > I run 'urpmi kipi-plugins-expoblending' and on the next update attempt I
> > did not get any restricting warnings/errors. So far so good. Finally I
> > could proceed with the update.
> > 
> > It seemed to complete well: no warnings, no errors. Except one little
> > dirty thing - the system failed to boot after restart. It stuck at GRUB
> > prompt with no errors displayed, just a word "GRUB". No reaction on any
> > key, not 'e', not 'c', not 'shift' button, not any others. Not even Ctl-
> > Alt-Del. The only way to get out of there was pressing Power Off button.
> > 
> > Booting from SystemRescueCD and reinstalling grub helped nothing. Plain
> > dead system.
> > 
> > But this was a climax. I get to the Mageia forum, trying to search for a
> > clue and get this:
> > 
> > "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few
> > minutes."
> > 
> > And no, folks, I've not reported any bugs. Sorry, far to many... :-( At
> > the end I did not try to anything funny here. Just a regular system
> > update.
> 
> This is a known bug, it *should* be solved now.
> 
> There is a bug report at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2097
> 
> It was quite a bad bug as it did break the update but it brought to
> light the now infamous bug 2317 -
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 - which all updates have to
> be checked against.
> 
> We have begun linking any required packages into updates media to
> prevent any recurrence of that unfortunate incident. If any do slip
> through the net then the affect you will see is that MageiaUpdate will
> give an error saying a certain package cannot be selected. Please do
> report this if you experience it!
> 
> This only affects MageiaUpdate, so you can still perform the update from
> the command line as root (urpmi --auto-update) or by installing the
> updated packages in rpmdrake instead.
> 
> Hopefully we are on top of this now though and a permanent solution is
> being worked on behind the scenes.
> 
> Sorry if you had a bad experience with this.

Also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2070

again, if there is bugs, try to confirm or give help.

btw: with the grub issue it would be interesting if you could report it and 
post the /root/drakx/install.log file in it. perhaps something odd happened 
during the install.

btw: was it installed using DVD or liveCD?


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