Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2011-03-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Witold, On Sonntag, 12. Dezember 2010, Witold Baryluk wrote: Basically I had /var/cache/apt, linked to /home/root/apt, and /home was NFS mount. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#sufficient-space (probably just now) states: Use a temporary

Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2011-01-13 Thread Witold Baryluk
Le 12/12/2010 à 01:50, Witold Baryluk a écrit : Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Hi. Basically I had /var/cache/apt, linked to /home/root/apt, and /home was NFS mount. I also discovered today that I have all users' TMP and TEMP env. var. pointing

Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2010-12-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:50:58AM +0100, Witold Baryluk wrote: Unfotunetly in mean time, something broked (probably nscd, nss, or LDAP authentification), and NFS mount was still mounted, but files was practically unaccessible. For example ls /home just hangs. And it cannot even be interupted

Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:22:26AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: (I use NFS for apt, because my workstations have limited disk capacity, and I have many of them, so I often download everything on one machine, and then remove lock, and use it on others machine to save

Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2010-12-12 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 12/12/2010 à 01:50, Witold Baryluk a écrit : Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Hi. Basically I had /var/cache/apt, linked to /home/root/apt, and /home was NFS mount. It is not a good idea to link /var/x to /home/y : * /var is (more or less) mandatory for

Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2010-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Le 12/12/2010 à 01:50, Witold Baryluk a écrit : Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Hi. Basically I had /var/cache/apt, linked to /home/root/apt, and /home was NFS mount. It is not a

Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

2010-12-11 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Hi. Basically I had /var/cache/apt, linked to /home/root/apt, and /home was NFS mount. After downloding everything using apt-get dist-upgrade -d, i started upgrade. Unfotunetly in mean time, something broked (probably nscd, nss, or LDAP