FC3 upgrade failure
Vladimir G. Ivanovic
vladimir at acm.org
Wed Nov 10 06:04:54 UTC 2004
I have this in my fstab:
/dev/hdg1 /mnt/hdg1 ext3 rw 0 0
/mnt/hdg1/local /usr/local none rw,bind 0 0
/mnt/hdg1/local/var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm none rw,bind 0 0
/mnt/hdg1/local/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt none rw,bind 0 0
/mnt/hdg1/local/var/cache/yum /var/cache/yum none rw,bind 0 0
The FC3 upgrade will not mount these last three directories. (I think
that /usr/local is mounted, but I don't actually remember.) The result
is a nearly a complete failure to upgrade because no packages are
found and hence none are upgraded. (A few packages are installed by
default and the system might have booted had not I had SCSI driver
problem (see my previous email.)
The workaround (for me) was to delete a bunch of stuff in /var, and
then to copy the RPM database files from /mnt/hdg1/local/var/lib/rpm
to /var/lib/rpm.
I think that a Fedora core upgrade should honor the users intentions
as captured by the mounts in /etc/fstab, i.e. mount all possible
drives.
--- Vladimir
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