libtasn1 error upon upgrading

imag1narynumber · 2008-09-14 22:21:21

I just ran yaourt -Syu and got the following error after the updates were downloaded:

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libtasn1: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem

Any ideas? Is this a generic error that I should've been able to find via Google? Thanks in advance!

Snowman · 2008-09-14 22:40:04

It's a bug. It's already been reported: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11484

imag1narynumber · 2008-09-14 22:48:55

Thanks, I'll have to check there in the future before posting here.

jarav · 2008-09-15 07:26:03

same problem here. So what do i do? wait for the bug to be resolved? Any workarounds, such as deleting the /usr/share/info/dir file? I am a newbie to Arch.

Army · 2008-09-15 08:10:26

I removed it. But before I do that, I always check, if this file belongs to another package. If so, I would look into the bugtracker, report it if not already present and wait for the fix. If not, it should be safe to remove it. You can check that with

pacman -Qo /usr/share/info/dir

-o is for "owns"

Last edited by Army (2008-09-15 08:10:39)

jarav · 2008-09-15 08:19:41

Army wrote:

I removed it. But before I do that, I always check, if this file belongs to another package. If so, I would look into the bugtracker, report it if not already present and wait for the fix. If not, it should be safe to remove it. You can check that with
pacman -Qo /usr/share/info/dir
-o is for "owns"

Thank you.

byte · 2008-09-15 08:19:49

You just wait, yes. Or --ignore libtasn1. Should be only gnutls depending on it.

You shouldn't go deleting stuff without knowing what it's being used for. You just ruined the 'info' subsystem, for example.

Last edited by byte (2008-09-15 08:23:27)

jarav · 2008-09-15 09:14:03

Aack. I already deleted it. Hope nothing happens.

[eXr] · 2008-09-15 09:39:41

byte wrote:

You just wait, yes. Or --ignore libtasn1. Should be only gnutls depending on it.
You shouldn't go deleting stuff without knowing what it's being used for. You just ruined the 'info' subsystem, for example.

thank you for the tip

m_kylli · 2008-09-15 17:06:07

I backed up the old dir-file:

sudo mv /usr/share/info/dir /usr/share/info/dir.bak

Then I updated libtasn1:

sudo pacman -S libtasn1

Then I restored the old dir-file:

sudo rm /usr/share/info/dir
sudo mv /usr/share/info/dir.bak /usr/share/info/dir

And finally I installed libtasn1's info info into the old dir-file:

sudo install-info /usr/share/info/libtasn1.info /usr/share/info/dir

byte · 2008-09-15 17:40:28

m_kylli: Yeah, perfect.

And as of now there's even a fixed libtasn1-1.5-2 package out, at least for 64bit. i686 should follow shortly. :]

mangus · 2008-09-15 20:33:50

yeah, but who owns /usr/share/info/dir originally? who generate it?

byte · 2008-09-15 20:40:32

Nothing owns it. It's a dynamically generated listing (see /var/lib/pacman/local/libtasn1-1.5-2/install), like the locate database (/etc/cron.daily/updatedb) or the whatis index (/etc/cron.daily/whatis).

keerthi · 2008-09-16 01:42:29

I force installed libtasn1 using pacman -Sf libtasn1. Now pacman -Qo /usr/share/info/dir says that it is owned by libtasn1. How do I reverse this damage? Thanks.

Allan · 2008-09-16 01:56:50

There is an updated version of libtasn1 on its way to a mirror near you. That should fix it...

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