[SOLVED] usrmerge conversion

Mint.newbie · 02-17-2022, 11:30 PM

"System Reports" put an icon in the tray. It requests "Perform usrmerge conversion" using "apt install usrmerge". When I run that it never completes because it hangs up at the microsoft licensing message. ( Can't find anything to click on to proceed.) After waiting 10 mins or more, I shut down terminal. (Multiple tries).

Any suggestions on how to get this done?

Using a desktop I put together myself.
Asus Prime B550-plus MB,
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU,
16GB DDR3 RAM
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-99-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7

ANY help is appreciated.

computersavvy · 02-18-2022, 07:24 PM

I suspect the SHUTDOwN command you have is improperly done with the "+0".
Have you tried "shutdown -h now" as an alternative? (I have used that for a lot of years.) The man page is very informative, and even though it says that "now" and "+0" are equivalent there may be inconsistencies.

ondoho · 02-19-2022, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mint.newbie

"System Reports" put an icon in the tray. It requests "Perform usrmerge conversion" using "apt install usrmerge". When I run that it never completes because it hangs up at the microsoft licensing message. ( Can't find anything to click on to proceed.) After waiting 10 mins or more, I shut down terminal. (Multiple tries).

Any suggestions on how to get this done?

Using a desktop I put together myself.
Asus Prime B550-plus MB,
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU,
16GB DDR3 RAM
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-99-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7

ANY help is appreciated.

Please do not edit your post after somebodyt already replied to it, for various reasons:

it makes people answering look stupid when they're replying to something that isn't there anymore
they won't get notified that something new happened in this thread

I wonder why you're getting a microsoft licensing message when trying to install usrmerge, which has nothing to do with MS or in fact any 3rd party entity whatsoever.

Please, open a terminal and show us:

Code:

sudo apt update
sudo apt -s install usrmerge

Mint.newbie · 02-19-2022, 11:06 AM

Thank you ondoho.

It appears that your suggestion solved the problem. I haven't restarted the machine yet to be certain. But, both commands completed without errors.

Code:

pro@Ben:~$ sudo apt update 
[sudo] password for pro:   
Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease                    
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]      
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                  
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                         
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease           
Hit:7 https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease                        
Hit:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                      
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]        
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/maarten-bae...ecorder/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/ha...eleases/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
Ign:13 http://packages.linuxmint.com una InRelease                        
Hit:14 http://packages.linuxmint.com una Release
Fetched 336 kB in 2s (219 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
pro@Ben:~$ 
pro@Ben:~$ sudo apt -s install usrmerge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  usrmerge
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst usrmerge (23 Ubuntu:20.04/focal [all])
Conf usrmerge (23 Ubuntu:20.04/focal [all])

I appreciate your tip on not changing a post. I just thought it was the most efficient way to express my need. On reflection, I see that as being selfish. Thanks again.

ondoho · 02-20-2022, 04:04 AM

That was just a simulation, nothing is solved yet.

You have a lot of additional repositories and PPAs in there, is this what Mint came with? If not, you should be aware that you are doing this at your won risk, there might be conflicts and other pitfalls (MS licenses?). Just read up on it. I'm sure Mint's own sites/resources have something to say on the matter.

Now you updated your repositories, you can run

Code:

sudo apt install usrmerge

Please use CODE tags for showing us the command & its full output.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mint.newbie

I appreciate your tip on not changing a post. I just thought it was the most efficient way to express my need.

No, it isn't because of the 2nd reason I gave. The new information was "lost" for whoever replied to your question and was waiting for new replies, until I came along.

Mint.newbie · 02-23-2022, 12:11 AM

Thank you for your knowledge and patience. It took me over 20 minutes of searching to figure out how to use tags. And it doesn't work. "/insert/code" is what I found. Not working here.
Can you give me a hint on how it is done ?

IN any case, your suggestion seems to have worked. I get "The system has been successfully converted." as the last line in terminal.

ondoho · 02-23-2022, 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mint.newbie

It took me over 20 minutes of searching to figure out how to use tags. And it doesn't work. "/insert/code" is what I found. Not working here.
Can you give me a hint on how it is done ?

Instructions in my signature.

Quote:

IN any case, your suggestion seems to have worked. I get "The system has been successfully converted." as the last line in terminal.

Great!
Now please mark your thread SOLVED (instructions also in my signature). Others will benefit.

afroclanis · 02-13-2024, 04:35 PM

I have recently had problems with ursmerge too when upgrading to Debian Bookworm in containers. The easiest way to deal with this is to side step the need to merge entirely. I found these steps work before typing apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade Debian-11 -> Debian-12:

apt-mark hold usrmerge
apt-mark hold usr-is-merged
apt-get dist-upgrade

This tells apt *not* to install usrmerge (and try the merge the various /usr file systems) and to keep the existing filesystem layout after the upgrade. I agree with the Debian developers logic in performing the merge, but until they get usrmerge to work with overlayfs, its a major issue when upgrading Debian Docker containers.