Devuan bug report logs - #850
Document Daedalus->Excalibur usrmerge before upgrade in Release Notes

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#850: Document Daedalus->Excalibur usrmerge before upgrade in Release Notes

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

To: 850-done@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: Closing as done

Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 10:00:41 +0000

This was included in the Release Notes.

Closing.

Mark

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From: sachy <sachy@s0c4.net>

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Subject: Daedalus->Excalibur upgrade - usrmerge fails on libsane1

Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 17:51:45 +0200

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Package: libsane1
Version: 

When upgrading from Daedalus to Excalibur, the usrmerge configure step fails on following files provided by libsane1 package:

/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-sane.hwdb
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-libsane1.rules

When this happens in su/sudo environment, the user can not escalate priviledges anymore because packages providing PAM authentication are not correctly upgraded yet.

Hotfix: Reboot to recovery console and delete mentioned files manually, then:
# apt-get install -f
# apt-get dist-upgrade
and reboot.

Circumvention: Execute "apt-get dist-upgrade" from root shell.

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