Your message dated Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:43:18 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#1032950: usrmerge: Can't rename /lib during aptitude
upgrade from bullseye under WSL
has caused the Debian Bug report #1032950,
regarding usrmerge: Can't rename /lib during aptitude upgrade from bullseye
under WSL
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Package: usrmerge
Version: 35
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
Under WSL, I installed Debian bullseye (months? a year? ago), and have now
decided to upgrade it to bookworm. My process was:
1. s/bullseye/bookworm/g for /etc/apt/sources.list
2. apt update
3. apt install aptitude
4. Using the aptitude TUI, upgraded everything.
(in retrospect, I understand that installing aptitude might seem weird, and
may in fact be what precipitated this bug)
During the install process, I got "FATAL ERROR: Can't rename /lib" permission
denied error in convert-usrmerge.
dpkg/aptitude continued to try to set things up (despite the "do not install or
update" anything else bold warning).
Some other packages "successfully" installed.
Then, usrmerge tried again (and failed) to install.
It looks like at a minimum, a better mechanism to stop dpkg from doing anything
while usrmerge has failed is in order.
I cannot play around on this system, unfortunately, so I will be untangling the
/lib mess, installing either usrmerge or usr-is-merged (after doing it by hand),
and finishing the upgrade.
Best,
Antonio
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On Mar 14, Antonio Russo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I still think this bug report represents a defect in usrmerge: the install
> process should have halted after that warning. It at least appeared that
> dpkg continued setting things up after that warning. Especially since
> dpkg/apt/aptitude tried a second time to do the usrmerge setup (which is
> normally a good idea for regular packages, IMO.)
This is not something that usrmerge can control.
I could merge a preinst check, if somebody volunteers to write and test
one.
I am closing this bug because WSL1 is unsupported by everybody and there
is not much that we can do about the rest.
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ciao,
Marco
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