I've resolved that by halting the guest, doing a tar pzcvf blah.tgz vserver-guest-dir renaming vserver-guest-dir and untarring back via tar zpxcvf blah.tgz Seems to have worked. 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? > How would I reverse vhashification? > > 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) > > > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="leitlhttp://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="leitlhttp://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE