Sorry, accidentally sent this only to Guido and not to the bug... -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Nick Phillips <nick.phill...@otago.ac.nz> To: Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org> Subject: Re: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#810141: libvirt-daemon -system postinst tries to touch files in nonexistent dirs Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:15:19 +1300
On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 18:15 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 09:42:08AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: > > Package: libvirt-daemon-system > > Version: 1.2.9-9+deb8u1 > > Severity: normal > > > > On upgrade from wheezy to jessie, libvirt-daemon-system failed to > > complete > > installation - postinst was trying to touch > > /var/log/libvirt/uml/.placeholder > > and /var/log/libvirt/lxc/.placeholder - when neither of those > > directories > > exist. > > > > Had to manually create dirs in order for postinst to complete. > > The dirs are created by the package itself, e.g. > > dpkg -S /var/log/libvirt/uml > > So if that failed, dpkg did not create the dirs (e.g. due to some > --path-exclude pattern). > > We'd need more logs to tell. We had lots of successful upgrades from > wheezy to jessie already, can you think of s.th. that could be > different > on your system? > Cheers, > -- Guido No, I can't. It was odd though, that I also had messages complaining about failing to register a libvirt service as one was already being provided by a different package (I think removing libvirt-bin manually fixed that). Is it possible that removing that package removed them for some reason? Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips / +64 3 479 4195 / nick.phill...@otago.ac.nz Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago