On Jan 12, Jason Rhinelander <jager...@jagerman.com> wrote: Thank you for testing the conversion program, for a start!
> I installed usrmerge, and got the following during configuration:
This is expected and not a bug.
> I could not figure out which processes/daemons in particular were
> causing the errors.
The next release will list the daemons, but it may still be more
convenient to reboot the whole system, so this is supposed to work...
> At this point, I examined the disk layout, and noticed that basically
> everything* in /{bin,sbin,lib} had been moved to /usr/{bin,sbin,lib}, and
> replaced with symlinks in /{bin,sbin,lib}, but /{bin,sbin,lib} still
> existed as real directories (not symlinks).
If you got at that point then everything in the directories was either
a directory or a symlink.
> Since I couldn't figure out which daemon was causing the problem, I
> rebooted the system as suggested in the usrmerge configure error
> messages. It didn't come back up: it failed to start with an error that
> /sbin/init was not found on the disk. Oddly, however, I could run ls
> /sbin/init which *did* show an existing symlink and target.
Did you get a "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg." message,
exactly?
This check in the initramfs it is supposed to cope with absolute
symlinks, but I did not test this exact condition and it is the only
possible failure I can think about right now.
--
ciao,
Marco
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