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Autor: Olaf Meeuwissen
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A: Marc Shapiro
Cc: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Problem upgrading to Daedalus
Hi Marc,

Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> I am currently running Chimaera and wish to upgrade to Daedalus.
>
> While I know that it should be perfectly safe to change the lines in
> my sources.list from Chimaera to Daedalus, then run apt update, apt
> upgrade and apt dist-upgrade, I also know that sometimes this does not
> go well.  I was a Debian user, up until Buster.  When I couldn't get
> Buster to work without systemd I said it was time to switch.  I have
> been using Devuan ever since.  There were times when an upgrade did
> not go as smoothly as it should have.
>
> That being the case, when a new release comes out, I copy the entire
> system to a new set of partitions, get that booting, and then upgrade
> the copy.  That way, I still have the previous release still bootable
> in case something goes wrong.
>
> I have modified /etc/fstab in the copy, and modified and run lilo from
> the original Chimaera.  When I try to boot to the copy of Chimarea,
> however, I get a kernel panic when it tries to mount /usr.  It says
> the file can not be found.  This sounds to me like /dev is not
> populating.  On my current Chimaera system, /dev, /sys, /proc, and a
> few others have filesystems mounted on them without needing anything
> in /etc/fstab:
>
> These are all mounted:
>
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> udev on /dev type devtmpfs
> (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=12203172k,nr_inodes=3050793,mode=755)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
> (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=2459476k,mode=755)
>
> without any reference in /etc/fstab.
>
> This is /etc/fstab in the copy, and, yes, everything is on lvm:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type> <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> /dev/mapper/vg1-root--daedalus               / ext4    errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/mapper/vg1-boot                      /boot ext4    defaults
> 0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-tmp--daedalus              /tmp ext4    defaults
> 0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-var--daedalus               /var ext4    defaults
> 0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-usr--daedalus               /usr ext4    defaults
> 0       2


Putting /usr on a separate partition under Daedalus? Smells like you
hit "usrmerge"

https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#a-merged-usr-is-now-required

> /dev/mapper/vg1-usrlocal                    /usr/local ext3
> defaults    0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-photos                    /usr/local/photos ext3
> defaults    0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-vdisks                     /usr/local/vdisks ext3
> defaults    0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-home                      /home ext4    defaults
> 0       2
> /dev/mapper/vg1-swap                     none swap    sw        0       0
>
> /dev/sr0                                     /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660
> user,noauto 0       0
>
>
> What do I need to do to have the above filesystems mounted and
> populated, so that the system will boot?


If it is indeed a case of hitting usrmerge, I'd say you need to move
everything in /dev/mapper/vg1-usr--daedalus to vg1-root--daedalus.
The stuff below /usr/local/ can stay where it is.

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen