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natanel

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Registered: 2025-06-01

Posts: 4  

Migration from Daedalus to Excalibur facing problems

I tried to install Excalibur on a Virtual Machine (the host is Debian Trixie, using Libvirt). The regular installation faced lots of problems, so instead I chose to install Daedalus and then upgrade to Excalibur.

Daedalus had no problems at all. All the problems are happening with Excalibur

Init: OpenRC

The steps I took:

1.

~# apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y usrmerge
~# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan6.sources && cat << heredoc > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan6.sources
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://il.deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: excalibur excalibur-updates
Components: main contrib non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://il.deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: excalibur-security
Components: main contrib non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
heredoc

2. Then I performed the rest of the guide:

~# apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade

After a reboot (though I didn't had to but still I wanted to see that everything works as expected) I get the following errors:

Error: udev is the name of a real and virtual service. [ ok ]
...
Cannot persist initramfs fsck.log ... Failed!
Checking file systems...Cannot persist the following output on disc ... Failed!

What does this mean?

Last edited by natanel (Yesterday 12:25:37)

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 510  

Re: Migration from Daedalus to Excalibur facing problems

I did
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install usrmerge
Then manually changed daedalus to excaliber in /etc/apt/sources.list
Then
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
That worked for me.