[pacman-dev] /etc/fstab rewritten by pacman!

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 11:07:13 EDT 2007


2007/4/10, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> 2007/4/10, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> > On 4/10/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Few hours ago I did an update on my server via ssh.
> > > First I updated pacman from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, then did -Su.
> > > One of packages was filesystem-0.8-2.
> > > I don't have etc/fstab in NoUpgrade since 2.9.8.
> > > Then some idiot rebooted server before I checked .pacnew files etc.
> > > One of my coworker called my by cellphone (I also noticed PuTTY became
> > > inactive).
> > > When I get to my second job (where server is located) - I saw that
> > > /etc/fstab is rewritten with package's default, though pacman also
> > > created fstab.pacnew.
> > > Any ideas why did this happen?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
> >
> > Uh oh. Heard of this yesterday too:
> > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31776
> >
> > What the hell is regressing?
>
> Dunno.
> Some time ago I did successful upgrade of filesystem package with
> pacman 2.9.8 without any NoUpgrade line.

Maybe something is still wrong or was broken after "proactive backup"?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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