On 30/06/12 13:37, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 08:07 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
>> Just because the answers are getting more ridiculous....
>>
>>
>> Open /usr/sbin/mkarchroot and change:
>>
>> mount -o remount,ro,bind "${working_dir}/sys"
>> to
>> mount -o remount,bind "${working_dir}/sys"
>>
>>
>> Allan
>
> Ooh, you're good :)
>
> That was it -- works like a charm now.
>
> ... just how did the little ',ro' come to cause such a problem?
>
/sys is in the filesystem package. When pacman upgrades filesystem it
tries to remove /sys then reinstall it (not really, simplified...). It
sees /sys is read only and so it can not deal with that so bails. It is
a bug in pacman.
Allan
