On 12/16/2012 01:55 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 16 December 2012 12:38, Mika Laitio <lam...@pilppa.org> wrote: >> Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update. >> During the install some package seemed to hang (I don't remember anymore >> which one) and I canceled install with ctrl-c and saw message about >> error in postinst section. >> >> I run urpmi.update again and then "urpmi auto-select" and somehow >> ended up to situation where all my network interfaces are down > > maybe b/c kernel-firmware was upgraded first and your network card needs > a firmware that is not compatible between different kernels > >> and about 900 rpm's fail to install as some of their dependencies are >> missing. >> >> I tried to download and copy the missing rpm's with another computer to >> usb stick, but usb fails to mount... (I can not see /dev/sdb, etc... >> only /dev/sda which is my harddisk) > > Strange... Probably related to your network issue. > You could run "modprobe usb_storage" (you may also have to load the USB > controller modules (see output of "lspcidrake -v"))
Yes, this indeed helped. modprobe usb_serial and then /dev/sdb* showed up and I was able to mount manually. May be related to fact that udev failed to start. > Didn't you reboot to a new kernel which you aborted the installation? > What if you boot to an older kernel (eg mga2 one)? Forget to say that I can get to console only from the "mageia 3 safe mode" grup option which goes directly to console. With normal mageia 3 or older mageia 2 kernel options I will eventually reach the login screen, but login itself always fails with all desktop envs I have and resets itself back to login screen again. (kde4, gnome, lxde, openbox, icewm) Now that I can mount the usb stick and manually copy the missing rpm's to harddrive, can I install these 900 rpm packages from this mga3 safe mode login, or should I create a new "Mageia 3 upgrade preparation safe mode" option to grup which has this rd.convertfs boot option and boot there for upgrading the rest of the rpm's from mga2 version to mga3? Mika