Subject: Re: [vserver] vhashify problem?
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:15:10 +0100

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:32:40PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:17:52PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting an apt-get upgrade problem in a debian lenny
> > guest that is vhashified. Any idea how to debug this?
> 
> do you use or did you recently update to/from the known
> broken 2.6.26 kernel (without fixing up the attributes)?

Yes, I've updated to 2.6.31.14-vs2.3.0.36.28.2-beng #1 SMP Mon Aug 9 10:18:48 BST 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux
after discovering that I was running the stock
Debian breakage.

How would I fix the attributes for all running guests?
 
> > How would I reverse vhashification?
> 
> the way you did (second mail) is fine, but simply breaking
> the hard links would work too
> 
> best,
> Herbert
> 
> > Preparing to replace base-files 5lenny7 (using .../base-files_5lenny8_amd64.deb)
...
> > Unpacking replacement base-files ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5lenny8_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >  unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1' before installing
new version: Operation not permitted
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5lenny8_amd64.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > 
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