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Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

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Hi,
Are you sure you still need these journals? Might be some nasty bug and my way to work around it would be to just delete those logs.
I mean, it's kind of a hacky solution but I'm absolutely sure this allows the upgrade to continue.

Hope it's a viable solution to you,
Tuxifan

Am 28. September 2021 17:55:59 MESZ schrieb peter@easthope.ca:
>Hi,
>Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the 
>following transcript.
>
>This page appears relevant.
>https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html
>
>/var/log/journal exists here.
>
>The command "systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal" gives 
>complaints similar to those in the transcript.
>
>Likely the solution is obvious once the problem is understood. What is 
>unsafe about the path transition?  How is systemd journaling meant to 
>work?
>
>Thx,                            ... P.
>
>===============================
>root@joule:~# apt update
>Hit:1 https://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian bullseye InRelease
>Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree... Done
>Reading state information... Done
>All packages are up to date.
>root@joule:~# apt upgrade
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree... Done
>Reading state information... Done
>Calculating upgrade... Done
>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>9 not fully installed or removed.
>After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
>Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ...
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27/system.journal.
>Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27/system.journal.
>dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):
> installed systemd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 73
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam-systemd:i386:
> libpam-systemd:i386 depends on systemd (= 247.3-6); however:
>  Package systemd is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package libpam-systemd:i386 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of policykit-1:
> policykit-1 depends on default-logind | logind; however:
>  Package default-logind is not installed.
>  Package libpam-systemd:i386 which provides default-logind is not configured yet.
>  Package logind is not installed.
>  Package libpam-systemd:i386 which provides logind is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package policykit-1 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of policykit-1-gnome:
> policykit-1-gnome depends on policykit-1; however:
>  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package policykit-1-gnome (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plymouth:
> plymouth depends on systemd (>= 232-8~); however:
>  Package systemd is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package plymouth (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mate-polkit:i386:
> mate-polkit:i386 depends on policykit-1; however:
>  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package mate-polkit:i386 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lxpolkit:
> lxpolkit depends on policykit-1; however:
>  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package lxpolkit (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of modemmanager:
> modemmanager depends on policykit-1; however:
>  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package modemmanager (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plymouth-label:
> plymouth-label depends on plymouth (= 0.9.5-3); however:
>  Package plymouth is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package plymouth-label (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> systemd
> libpam-systemd:i386
> policykit-1
> policykit-1-gnome
> plymouth
> mate-polkit:i386
> lxpolkit
> modemmanager
> plymouth-label
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>root@joule:~# 
>===============================
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Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-28 19:10 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> - 2021-09-28 19:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-29 22:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-09-30 03:30 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-28 19:50 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-29 22:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-29 22:50 +0200
        Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 05:40 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> - 2021-09-30 06:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-30 13:20 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2021-10-02 07:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-02 09:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-28 20:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-28 20:50 +0200

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