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

[Sander Lepik]

24.07.2012 02:32, Barry Jackson kirjutas:
> Updating an i586 Cauldron VM I am getting this:-
> Preparing... 
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>      1/52: filesystem 
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> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/run: cpio: rename 
> failed - Is a directory
> error: filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.i586: install failed
>
> This is at the start of --auto-update after the re-boot.
>
Is your /var on a separate partition? I had the same problem with 
/var/lock and /var/run. To solve this i had to rename those directories 
(later deleted them) and i created two symlinks /var/lock -> /run/lock 
and /var/run -> /run - after that filesystem installed w/o problems.

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Sander