Hi

Dne Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:57:34 +0100
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:42:45AM +0100, Michal Čihař wrote:
> > when upgrading to quota 3.15-5, upgrade fails:
> > 
> > Setting up quota (3.15-5) ...
> > Checking quotas...quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so 
> > quotacheck might damage the file.
> > Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
> > quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might 
> > damage the file.
> > Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.
> > invoke-rc.d: initscript quota, action "start" failed.
> > dpkg: error processing quota (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6
> 
> From which version of quota did you upgrade?

[UPGRADE] quota 3.15-4 -> 3.15-5

> > I have root filesystem with quotas on ext3. This file system does not
> > seem to support disabling quota on the fly, so I think this check should
> 
> I don't understand this. /etc/init.d/quota stop does not work for you? 

Now it works, I have no idea why it did not work. Forget the part about
not being able to disable quota, I tried to remount file system without
quota what does not work, quotaoff of course works.

> > not be done at all on upgrade.
> 
> Now this is where the problem starts. It is not done on upgrade. I'd
> guess that almost everyone using quota upgrades the package with quota
> enabled and it always worked afaict. If you have a look at the postinst
> file you'll see that quotacheck is only started if you're not doing a
> clean upgrade. So I really need more infos.

Just ask what you need. All I did was upgrade from unstable about about
one week old. Sorry about confusion with disabling quota, I thought it
should be done using remounting.

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        Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

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