Upgrade error in nfsroot

[Andrew Ruthven]

Hey,

I've found that this will happen if fai-make-nfsroot bails out part way
through the update (or build) of the nfsroot.

Really confused me the first time I hit it!

Cheers,
Andrew

On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 09:20 +0100, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have to correct myself: upgrading the nfsroot worked, but the NFS
> root is not functional now. When booting, it says "cannot execute
> /etc/init.d/rcS". Indeed, /etc/init.d/rcS does not exist.
> 
> Is rcS supposed to be a real file or a link somewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Am 26.02.20 um 08:31 schrieb Andreas Heinlein:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > when upgrading FAI inside the nfsroot with 'fai-make-nfsroot -v -k
> > -N', I got:
> > 
> > Preparing to unpack .../15-fai-nfsroot_5.9.2_all.deb ...
> > dpkg-divert: error: 'diversion of /etc/init.d/rcS to
> > /etc/init.d/rcS.orig by fai-nfsroot' clashes with 'diversion of
> > /etc/init.d/rcS to /etc/init.d/rcS.distrib by fai-nfsroot'
> > dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-hXzBfK/15-fai-
> > nfsroot_5.9.2_all.deb (--unpack):
> >  new fai-nfsroot package pre-installation script subprocess
> > returned error exit status 2
> > 
> > when upgrading FAI from 5.9.1 to 5.9.2
> > 
> > I had to manually chroot to the nfsroot and remove the diversion,
> > then it worked. Maybe this should be included in the preinst
> > script.
> > 
> > Bye,
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
> > 
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