Have you followed the UsrMove procedures?
(They were announced in the dev ML.)

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove#Release_Notes

(In reply to comment #1)
> Have you followed the UsrMove procedures?
> (They were announced in the dev ML.)

exactly, as all major change like this one are annouced, you should subscriber to the mailing (for at least the ANNOUCE/ANN/etc thread)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Let's see whether I can assign a closed report to coling :-)

I have this problem on the 2nd system I performed the usrmove on (taking the same steps as on the 1st system). Everything seems to have gone well, except for not being able to update and getting this: 

Installation failed:    rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.i586


[marja@localhost /]$ ls -l
total 240
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      7 Aug  6 19:27 bin -> usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Aug  6 20:09 boot/
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root   4096 Jul  1 18:45 CauldronLXDE/
-rw-------   1 root root 166565 Aug  5 15:01 dead.letter
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root   3980 Aug  6 20:09 dev/
drwxr-xr-x 122 root root  12288 Aug  6 20:44 etc/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root   4096 Mar 13 11:59 home/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 13 11:59 initrd/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      7 Aug  6 19:27 lib -> usr/lib/
drwx------   2 root root  16384 May 12 15:28 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jun 14 20:52 media/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 13 11:59 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 13 11:59 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 153 root root      0 Aug  6 20:08 proc/
drwxr-x---  12 root root   4096 Aug  6 20:48 root/
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root    620 Aug  6 21:01 run/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      8 Aug  6 19:27 sbin -> usr/sbin/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 13 11:59 srv/
dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root      0 Aug  6 20:09 sys/
drwxrwxrwt  18 root root    440 Aug  6 20:57 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root   4096 Aug  6 19:27 usr/
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root   4096 Aug  6 19:27 var/
[marja@localhost /]$

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Reopening, I did an extra reboot right after rpm -a zapata (probably because a newer kernel was installed), but don't see how that can have caused the update problem

/root/.bash_history :

urpmi --auto-update --skip '/filesystem|ncurses/'
urpmi --auto-select
urpmi dracut
rpm -e zapata
reboot
dracut -f -a convertfs
reboot
urpmi --auto-select
urpmi --auto-update 2>&1 | tee Updates/201208061930
dracut -f

I tried auto-update because auto-select failed, but auto-update failed just as hard.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID => (none)

you have make dracut -f -a convertfs on the kernel you are using ?

(In reply to comment #5)
> you have make dracut -f -a convertfs on the kernel you are using ?

Yes, I couldn't install a newer kernel since (and that shouldn't make a difference, once the conversion is done, anyway).

In case you mean: did you include the conversion script in the initrd for the correct kernel, then the answer is "yes" too. The conversion was successful, you can see above that /bin /lib and /sbin are links now, if I had included it in the initrd for the wrong kernel there wouldn't have been a conversion.

Right after the conversion, so while 100% sure still using the same kernel, I already had the error when trying to update

(In reply to comment #3)
> Let's see whether I can assign a closed report to coling :-)
> 
> I have this problem on the 2nd system I performed the usrmove on (taking the
> same steps as on the 1st system). Everything seems to have gone well, except
> for not being able to update and getting this: 
> 
> Installation failed:    rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by
> filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.i586

What is the version of your rpm package?

CC: (none) => sander.lepik

(In reply to comment #7)

> 
> What is the version of your rpm package?

rpm-4.10.0-2.mga3

Last weekend I did something unusual, though, I "upgraded" this cauldron with boot-nonfree.iso, because I needed to check our test drakx-installer-help files.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5086#c24

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> 
> > 
> > What is the version of your rpm package?
> 
> rpm-4.10.0-2.mga3

Hmm, that's weird. Latest seems to be rpm-4.10.0-10.mga3. Filesystem check was added in 5th release, so you should first update your rpm. No idea why it was not updated by urpmi. Are your mirrors up-to-date?

This is a known issue and has been discussed a bit on the list. The problem is that to install the latest rpm package, it somehow pulls in the new filesystem rpm (likely due to a perl dep) and as such it hits a cyclical loop.

The same issue affects an upgrade from mga2 (sans updated rpm from updates/testing) to cauldron.

This is on the infinite todo list. Likely just a matter of relaxing a require somewhere or other but it's easily the kind of thing that could pop up again. How to resolve this properly really depends on how we'll end up supporting upgrades - e.g. if we insist that your Mga(n-x) install is fully up-to-date first then this won't be an issue and it becomes a cauldron-only issue which is easily ignored :p

In order to update, assuming you can manually verify the conversion is OK (check symlinks in /{bin,sbin,lib,lib64} and /var/{run,lock})  then just download and manually install the latest filesystem rpm with --nodeps. Ugly but it's safe enough (assuming you really did do the conversion and the checks first!)

(In reply to comment #11)

> In order to update, assuming you can manually verify the conversion is OK
> (check symlinks in /{bin,sbin,lib,lib64} and /var/{run,lock})  then just
> download and manually install the latest filesystem rpm with --nodeps. Ugly but
> it's safe enough (assuming you really did do the conversion and the checks
> first!)

Thx, Colin :-D

That did the trick, although I had to use --allow-nodeps ;)

fixed for a log date

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Source RPM: (none) => rpm