Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

[vEX] · 2007-07-31 09:11:46

Ran pacman -Syu today (as I do every day) and while it was upgrading the filesystem package I got the following output:

warning: extracting /etc/passwd as /etc/passwd.pacnew
warning: extracting /etc/fstab as /etc/fstab.pacnew
warning: extracting /etc/group as /etc/group.pacnew
warning: extracting /etc/shadow as /etc/shadow.pacnew
warning: extracting /etc/ld.so.conf as /etc/ld.so.conf.pacnew
error: could not extract /usr/var (Directory not empty)
error: errors occurred while upgrading filesystem
(1/4) upgrading filesystem [#####################] 100%

Should I be worried? To me it just looks like it was trying to create an already existing directory and bailed out. Looking at the filelist of filesystem reveals no files in that directroy so I don't think there is any problem, or is there?

shining · 2007-07-31 10:09:24

/usr/var/ is a symlink to /var/ here, not a directory.
So is /usr/var/ a real directory, and if yes, which files does it contain ? And which packages own these files ?

It could have been caused by this : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7484

[vEX] · 2007-07-31 11:42:54

$ ls /usr/var/ -l
total 8
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  229 26 jun 19.22 lbreakout2.hscr
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 18 jun 07.29 run

$ pacman -Qo /usr/var/lbreakout2.hscr 
/usr/var/lbreakout2.hscr is owned by lbreakout2 2.6beta_7-1

$ ls /usr/var/run/ -l
total 4
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 18 jun 07.29 wesnothd

# ls /usr/var/run/wesnothd/ -l
total 0

So lbreakout2 and wesnoth might be to blame here.

shining · 2007-07-31 13:13:35

I think it's only pacman that is to blame , it probably overwrote the /usr/var/ -> /var/ symlink when installing lbreakout2 .
Anyway, I'm not sure why /usr/var/ is a symlink to /var/ , so I don't know if having a real /usr/var/ directory could cause issues. But I don't think so..

You can still repair it manually if you like, by moving the stuff in /usr/var/ back to /var/ , and then restoring the symlink.
But this will break next time you upgrade a package with a file in /usr/var/ , with a broken pacman.

Lone_Wolf · 2007-07-31 18:28:33

I'd advise to uninstall lbreakout2 and wesnoth , THEN remove any left over files in /usr/var/ and restore the symlink.

After that you can try installing those packages again.

loserMcloser · 2007-07-31 20:17:49

Lone_Wolf wrote:

I'd advise to uninstall lbreakout2 and wesnoth , THEN remove any left over files in /usr/var/ and restore the symlink.
After that you can try installing those packages again.

That will just cause pacman to overwrite the symlink again when reinstalling those packages, and [vEX] will just have the original problem all over again. (see the bug that shining has referred to).

[vEX] · 2007-07-31 20:57:50

So the best solution would seem to be to wait for a new pacman that fixes the bug and then remove the packages, fix the symlink (reinstalling filesystem should be do the trick, yes I'm to lazy to do it myself :-p) and then install the packages?

loserMcloser · 2007-07-31 21:38:21

While you wait for an update to pacman, you could do the following:

* uninstall any packages that have put files in /usr/var
* add the following line to /etc/fstab

/var             /usr/var                none    bind              0       0

* mount /usr/var
* reinstall the packages from step 1.

Note that pacman will still give you errors when updating the filesystem package, something along the lines of "could not extract /usr/var, mountpoint busy", but this isn't anything to worry about.

jftaylor21 · 2007-08-04 14:44:04

Do any developers know about this yet? I'm having this problem too and would like to see an official fix...

Last edited by jftaylor21 (2007-08-04 14:44:22)

shining · 2007-08-04 19:23:29

jftaylor21 wrote:

Do any developers know about this yet? I'm having this problem too and would like to see an official fix...

In case you missed the bug report :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7484#comment17865

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#1 2007-07-31 09:11:46

Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

#2 2007-07-31 10:09:24

Re: Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

#3 2007-07-31 11:42:54

Re: Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

#4 2007-07-31 13:13:35

Re: Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

#5 2007-07-31 18:28:33

Re: Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

#6 2007-07-31 20:17:49

Re: Error while upgrading filesystem 0.8-9 -> 2007.08-1

#7 2007-07-31 20:57:50

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#9 2007-08-04 14:44:04

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