'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 08/12/12 12:25 did gyre and gimble: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:37:43PM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Hi, >> > [...] >> So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2 >> core/updates_testing. > [...] >> >> Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup >> etc. etc. >> >> Col >> > Hi Colin, > > I’ve followed the procedure and could upgrade my system from 2 to > cauldron, but I still have an issue with the filesystem package. > > Somehow it seems like it fails to move /var/run to /run and /var/lock to > /run/lock. > > I would be glad if there could be a workaround for this. > Here is a debug output of urpmi: > # export LC_ALL=C > # export LANG=C > # urpmi --debug filesystem > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lock: cpio: rename > failed - Is a directory > error: filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.x86_64: install failed > error: filesystem-2.1.9-17.mga2.x86_64: erase skipped > unlocking urpmi database > unlocking rpm database > EXITING (pid=11661) > > The only way out I think would be to manually do the symlink from > another install. > > Could you confirm that ?
Actually yes, there is still a problem at present with /var on a separate partition... I need to look into that. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/