vfat : wubi 8.04.1-rev506 kernel upgrade fails
Bug #252900 reported by
magowiz
This bug affects 48 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Wubi |
Fix Released
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Medium
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vinceff | ||
dpkg (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I try to upgrade the kernel it fails with this error :
E: /var/cache/
My fs is a vfat, ubuntu , with wubi version indicated in summary
description: | updated |
Changed in dpkg: | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in dpkg: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in wubi: | |
assignee: | nobody → vince (vinceff) |
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Since link it isn't a fat32 supported operation I found a workaround : if you have an external disk or a partition which have a linux filesystem it is possible to copy the wubi-ubuntu /boot/ directory in that linux filesystem, mount it as /boot/ in ubuntu, upgrade the kernel and then remount it in another mount point (/mnt/tmp/ ) and copy the new boot over the ubuntu "old" one, then reboot the machine.
If it isn't possible to have a dedicated temporary boot partition formatted with a linux file system you could always make a temporary boot directory over an existing fs and then export via nfs that dir and mount it as boot.
Keep in mind , if you use nfs that you need no_root_squash as an option to make apt-get assign correctly the ownership of the files.