If this problem should resurface, open a new thread and link back to this one.
Thanks
]]>I first deleted /etc/mtab, but then 'pacman -Sy filesystem --force' didn't work
http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesyste … -required/ says
Install the package as follows:
pacman -S filesystem --force
It is strongly advised to avoid the --force or -f switch as it is not safe. However, in this particular case it is needed as deleting /etc/mtab manually would break pacman.
(emphasis mine)
Please read before upgrading.
J.E.B.
]]>Open your own thread about your issue, and please include more details about your network setup and what, if any, errors are in your logs, etc...
# edit: damn, beaten by ngoonee again...
]]>I've done pacman -S filesystem --force and reboot
Now I can't connect to network.
I had wired network before
Can someone help me?
Unrelated problem, start your own thread please. With more information than that.
]]>Edit: I see that the file is still there somehow, and that /etc/mtab points to '/proc/self/mounts', is this normal?
]]>*Edit*
Beat to the post. Oops.
Read the news on the front page...
Well, that was easy
When upgrading to filesystem-2011.12 there will be a conflict with /etc/mtab.
Install the package as follows:
pacman -S filesystem --force
It is strongly advised to avoid the --force or -f switch as it is not safe. However, in this particular case it is needed as deleting /etc/mtab manually would break pacman.
The reason for the conflict is that the file used to be generated at boot and hence not owned by any package. Now it is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts owned by filesystem. This change means that initscripts no longer requires write access to the rootfs (though other packages might).
Well, I tried to update my system with pacman -Syu and I got this error.
[diego@snow ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...Targets (6): bluez-4.96-3 filesystem-2011.12-2 glibc-2.14.1-4
libldap-2.4.28-1 liboauth-0.9.6-1 xorg-xinit-1.3.1-2Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 36.11 MBProceed with installation? [Y/n]
(6/6) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
(6/6) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I already searched for this and I found out that this is common when using the testing repository, but I'm not using it.
Should i delete /etc/mtab? I also tried to reboot a couple of times and nothing changed.
I can still install new packages.
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