update to Mageia 7 went south
Posted: Nov 24th, '19, 23:56
I finally cut loose enough time to upgrade from Mageia 6 to Mageia 7. It did not go well, and presently I am stuck. Rolling back was easy enough, but I need to get this to work.
Per the update instructions in the wiki, I manually removed udisks (which would have bitten me). I also removed a number of 32 bit devel libs from my system, as was specified.
I found it necessary to rebuild my rpm database.
My system was fully updated in Mageia 6 before I started.
Using urpmi, I switched repositories by first deleting the existing mageia 6 repos then adding in the mageia 7 repos, as called out in the Mageia 7 Release Notes in the wiki.
All of this was per the wiki, and I don't think I missed anything.
I started the update using this command:
and it appeared to complete successfully. It also had the side-effect of downloading 5015 packages required for my upgrade. I have been careful to preserve those files through my multiple attempts to upgrade; why download again?
I then did the upgrade with
This command installed the first 720-odd packages onto the disk (including glibc, the kernel, and some perl stuff, among other things), then began the scripting to install them into the system.
AT this point, installation fails.
When those first packages are being installed, I was seeing this warning several times:
The installation then segfaulted, informing me that there was a problem with the format of the new initrd (sorry, I did not copy the specific error message).
I then tried to re-run the urpmi upgrade command and got this message:
The real issue is the last line, but I presume that the preceding warning is actually the source of the problem. Unfortunately, I don't know what is supposed to be there. I did manually set the LC_ALL key (export LC_ALL=en_US) but that did not solve the problem.. Instead, I now get the error message (I get it multiple times):
I also get the same warning as above, except that LC_all is set to "en_US". And finally, I seem to have the error:
And at this point urpmi hangs and I have to force-kill it.
So, what should I do about this?
Per the update instructions in the wiki, I manually removed udisks (which would have bitten me). I also removed a number of 32 bit devel libs from my system, as was specified.
I found it necessary to rebuild my rpm database.
My system was fully updated in Mageia 6 before I started.
Using urpmi, I switched repositories by first deleting the existing mageia 6 repos then adding in the mageia 7 repos, as called out in the Mageia 7 Release Notes in the wiki.
All of this was per the wiki, and I don't think I missed anything.
I started the update using this command:
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urpmi --auto-update --auto --force --download-all --test
and it appeared to complete successfully. It also had the side-effect of downloading 5015 packages required for my upgrade. I have been careful to preserve those files through my multiple attempts to upgrade; why download again?
I then did the upgrade with
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urpmi --auto-update --auto --force
This command installed the first 720-odd packages onto the disk (including glibc, the kernel, and some perl stuff, among other things), then began the scripting to install them into the system.
AT this point, installation fails.
When those first packages are being installed, I was seeing this warning several times:
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_US",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_SOURCED = "1",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
The installation then segfaulted, informing me that there was a problem with the format of the new initrd (sorry, I did not copy the specific error message).
I then tried to re-run the urpmi upgrade command and got this message:
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_US",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_SOURCED = "1",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Int64.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0xdb00080, needed 0xce00080)
The real issue is the last line, but I presume that the preceding warning is actually the source of the problem. Unfortunately, I don't know what is supposed to be there. I did manually set the LC_ALL key (export LC_ALL=en_US) but that did not solve the problem.. Instead, I now get the error message (I get it multiple times):
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/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
I also get the same warning as above, except that LC_all is set to "en_US". And finally, I seem to have the error:
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error: rpmdb: DB_LOCK->lock_put: Lock is no longer valid
error: db5 error(22) from dbcursor->c_close: Invalid argument
And at this point urpmi hangs and I have to force-kill it.
So, what should I do about this?