'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 22/07/12 17:51 did gyre and gimble: > Hi all, > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:46:58 +0300 > Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Colin, >> >> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:12:58 +0100 >> Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> OK, so the packages have now all been uploaded. >>> >>> You should see several packages now that you cannot install on Cauldron. >>> This is intended behaviour. >>> >>> Here is how to update your cauldron systems: >>> >>> 1. Run "urpmi --auto-update" install everything that can be installed. >>> 2. Ensure that latest dracut is installed. Run "urpmi dracut" to make >>> sure (it may have been excluded in the --auto-update if it was in a >>> transaction with other packages that could not be installed). >>> 3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed (rpm -e zapata; >>> rpm -e dpkg) >>> 4. Generate a new initrd and include the conversion script: dracut -f >>> -a convertfs >>> 5. If you have /usr on a separate partition >>> - Ensure there is enough free space to hold /bin, /sbin, /lib and >>> /lib64 content. >>> - If your /usr is mounted readonly, change your /etc/fstab to mount >>> it rw. >>> 6. Reboot. >>> 7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw >>> rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot. >>> >>> That should be all that is needed :) >>> >> >> OK, I did all that and now I am getting: >> >> [QUOTE] >> installing findutils-4.5.10-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> lib64plymouth2-0.8.6.1-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> lib64ncursesw-devel-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> plymouth-plugin-script-0.8.6.1-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> lib64ncurses5-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm ncurses-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.6.1-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> lib64dbjava5.1-5.1.29-4.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64ncursesw5-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm >> lib64ncurses-devel-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms >> Preparing... >> ############################################# >> 1/69: 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 >> 2/69: ncurses >> ############################################# >> 3/69: lib64ncurses5 >> ############################################# >> 4/69: lib64plymouth2 >> ############################################# >> 5/69: plymouth-plugin-label >> ############################################# >> 6/69: lib64ncursesw5 >> ############################################# >> 7/69: lib64ncursesw-devel >> ############################################# >> 8/69: plymouth-plugin-script >> >> ############################################# >> 9/69: lib64ncurses-devel >> ############################################# >> 10/69: findutils >> ############################################# >> 11/69: lib64dbjava5.1 >> ############################################# >> [/QUOTE] >> >> And the rest of the packages refuse to install. > > OK, I figured out. After I ran as root: > > # cd /var > # mv lock lock.ol > # mv run run.old > > It was fixed and I was able to install the "filesystem" package and the rest > of the packages. However, something like that should not happen.
Well, this should have been done for you. Did you already have run.runmove~ and lock.lockmove~ folders in /var? If so then I suspect something is killing the symlinks. I did have this problem initially too because the mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service file would actually delete the symlinks and then some other system (perhaps systemd-tmpfiles) actually recreated the /var/run and /var/lock folders. In the latest version of the dracut script I ensured that I disabled that script by deleting the service file. Can you double check that rebooting again doesn't "reconvert" the links back to dirs for /var/run and /var/lock because if so, then there could be some other "cleaning" config somewhere that I've missed. Cheers 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/
