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

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Package: linux; Maintainer for linux is Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]>;

Affects: dpkg

Reported by: Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:18:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: upstream

Found in versions 4.12.6-1, 4.6.4-1

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[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:16:10 -0300 Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>
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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