Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello, Reminds me to bug 299667, but I doubt your problem has the same reason. (I have /var/lib as symlink to my encrypted home, which is a quite special setup.)
i have taken a look at that bug. maybe there is a possibility about this separate /var partition at my setup. it seems (i still have that testsystem from 10.2 to 10.3 haning with the error message of the grub loader) as if on that system (still in the install-mode, very first step with booting from 10.3 dvd, and upgrading packages, but failing for grub/bootloader at the end) the old /dev/hda6 (now /dev/sda6) partition never gets mounted to /mnt/var all the other partitions are mounted during install time of yast correctly as it seems. i have found: /dev/sda3 on /mnt /dev/sda2 on /mnt/boot /dev/sda7 on /mnt/opt and /dev/sda5 on /mnt/usr when i chdir to /mnt/var i still see hugeloads of files in there.... although i suppose thats the problem. those files in var could be disjunct files from the upgrade/install process of this first opensuse 10.3 dvd media process, but they never integrated into my actual old /var (from /dev/hda6 respectively /dev/sda6) as it never got mounted. like i described in my earlier posting, at the very begining of the upgrade process of the 10.3 dvd install media, opensuse 10.3 installer doesnt find any upgradable opensuse 10.2. the list stayed empty. then i activated show all partitions, and selected the old opensuse 10.2 root partition /dev/hda3 and told the opensuse 10.3 installer that its now /dev/sda3 at that point it asked me for the locations of /opt and for /usr and i changed the old /dev/hdaX paritions to /dev/sdaX i already wondered in the back of my mind why it never asked for /var on /dev/hda6 so that i could point it to /dev/sda6.... so i guess now, thats the whole problem with the upgrade scenario.... it doesnt include the /var partition from the old clean 10.2 install. now this is a pretty big mess if you ask me. i also have checked with my previously upgraded production system (also from 10.2 to 10.3) from last night. the /var partion is properly filled with data there, but oddly the /var/log/message file stopped last night at 02:something when i did the upgrade, and messages dont arrive there any more. so i guess something nevertheless still hosed my system regarding my /var partition, even though i tried to fix it with the second upgrade process over the first upgrade step of 10.3 which then crashed with the grub/bootloader installation error. so i additionally have this problem of the /var parition and the missing logs on my production system now, any maybe i'm gonna discover even more problems with the /var partition :( damn :/ aaaargh. this sux bigtime
So you have /var as separate partition. Is /var/lib/hardware populated with data?
i have/had /boot, /, /var and /opt as separate partitons, in addition to swap. see my above explanation and hints about this bug. thanks for the hints and help with this problem. it seems as if the upgrade process fails when people have a separate /var partition and they never get asked to point to the actual /var partition in this libata-devicename-change process from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx sigh.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org