Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 16:55:23 +0200
zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> wrote:
> On 08 Sep 2023 12:54, Marco wrote:
> > Warning: NFS detected, /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge will
> > not be run automatically. See #842145 for details.
>
> Read :
> - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842145
“I repeated it a few times. I had to restart various services in between
retries (I think I restarted everything by the end). Eventually it
succeeded.”
I tried it 30 times to no avail. The report doesn't offer another
solution.
> - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039522
“instead of converting the client, convert the server first.”
I don't want to convert the server. The server is running fine and
has no issues. I don't have a clue what this has to do with the
server.
“So there is a workaround when your NFS server is a Linux machine
and you may use chroot on it, at least.”
The server doesn't run Linux. So also no solution there.
> carefully copy the files over a Linux machine, chroot+convert
> there, then move back to the NFS server.
That is quite an involved task. I didn't expect such fiddling for a
simple OS update. I'm a bit worried that the permissions and owners
go haywire when I copy stuff directly off the server onto a VM and
back onto the server. Is there a recommended procedure or
documentation available?
> Can help:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/312218/chroot-from-freebsd-to-linux
I cannot install stuff on the server unfortunately.
Thanks for your quick reply.
Marco
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