Anne Wilson <[email protected]> writes: >> I've clarified these instructions on the wiki: >> >> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove#Release_Notes >> >> >> Feel free to augment them with better info as needed. >> > I now have a functioning system, but not without some jiggery-pokery > :-) The good news, though, is that I can almost certainly point to > the problem and solution. > > Normally I update my systems almost daily, but for reasons not > relevant here, the netbook hasn't been switched on for about a week, > so there were a number of updates waiting. > > I started with the full update, which failed, part-way through, as > expected. What I didn't realise, though, was that it had failed > before updating the kernel (and, as it happens, half way through > updating KDE which became unusable). > > Basically I followed the hints you gave Charles, and finally got > things running again. > > I would suggest, then, that you make "update your kernel and reboot" > the very first instruction, before updating everything else. > Undoubtedly there will be others who, for whatever reason, don't have > the absolute latest kernel, and don't realise that an update is needed.
I have updated the command in the wiki to be: urpmi --auto-update --skip '/filesystem|ncurses/' (as I have pointed earlier in this thread) This will install a lot more packages (including kernel), before the /usr move. -- Olivier Blin - blino
