Subject: Bug#836211: dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs: Invalid cross-device link

From: Tomas Krizek <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 16:21:15 +0200

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:16:10 -0300 Felipe Sateler <[email-masked]>
wrote:>  unable to move aside './usr/share/bug/apt' to install new
version: Invalid cross-device link
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

I'm hitting this bug when attempting to use debian in a container backed
by overlayfs.

Kernel version on host: 5.12.8.arch1-1

It works fine with kernel 5.10.41-1.

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Tomas Krizek
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