[Mageia-discuss] Cannot do a fresh install of Alpha 3 with updates any more

[Juergen Harms]

Since a couple of days ( 2 or 3, no problem until then ) I do not manage 
any more to create a clean and empty up-to-date Alpha 3 system - which I 
would need to test some packages I am maintaining, and do that before 
Beta 1 is created.

No problem doing the install (Alpha 3 i586 iso DVD), no problem to boot 
the installed system. No problem to (I do it manually) create media.

The problem starts, when I then do urpmi.updates --auto-install. The 
first step works as it should - I get 6 packages installed:

 
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/meta-task-2-26.mga2.noarch.rpm
 
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/rpm-4.9.1.2-16.mga2.i586.rpm
 
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/urpmi-6.44-1.mga2.noarch.rpm
 
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/librpm2-4.9.1.2-16.mga2.i586.rpm
 
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/perl-URPM-3.38.8-1.1.mga2.i586.rpm
 
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/python-rpm-4.9.1.2-16.mga2.i586.rpm

and the problem comes then, when urpmi proposes a list of 552 packages 
to install and I reply with y:

     Proceed with the installation of the 552 packages? (Y/n) y
     Udisks daemon (udisks-daemon) is not running or not ready

It looks like udisks and cie work well until these 6 packages are 
updated and that then one of them does mischief and creates the udisks 
problem (as I said: perfectly OK until a couple of days ago).

Is this problem appearing elsewhere? can I have done something stupidly 
wrong? I could wait until the Beta iso is published - but I would like 
to make sure that my packages (backuppc, geda suite) install and run as 
they should before Beta is finalized.