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Author: Marc Shapiro
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Problem upgrading to Daedalus

On 8/23/23 08:22, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:53:33PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>> 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.
> ...
> ...
>> 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
> ...
> ...
>>> 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.
> I thought Devuan still did not require usrmerge?  Not even in daedalus?

>
> -- hendrik


I thought so, too, but eliminating the separate partition for /usr has
solved the issue.

Marc