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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Barry Jackson at 24/07/12 10:15 did gyre and gimble:
> On 24/07/12 07:21, Sander Lepik wrote:
>> 24.07.2012 02:32, Barry Jackson kirjutas:
>>> Updating an i586 Cauldron VM I am getting this:-
>>> Preparing...
>>> #########################################################################################################
>>>
>>>
>>> 1/52: filesystem
>>> #########################################################################################################
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Sander
>>
>>
> No, this is a single partition install in virtualbox that I use for
> testing. I will look at those files later though - thanks.

Did this happen after you ran the conversion process (i.e regenerate
initrd with the convertfs module etc. etc.) or before?

If before then it's quite worrying that it even let you try and install
the package. If after, then I'm confused as to why they were not
converted OK as part of that process (in this case do you have
/var/run.runmove~ and /var/lock.lockmove~ files?)


Cheers

Col



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