[solved] Filesystem-conflicts

San2ban · 2010-09-28 15:10:51

Pl. somebody guide what I should do with the below upgrade

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
checking package integrity...
(5/5) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /etc/crypttab exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/fstab exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/group exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/gshadow exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/host.conf exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/hosts exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/issue exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/ld.so.conf exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/motd exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/nsswitch.conf exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/passwd exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/profile exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/resolv.conf exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/securetty exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/shadow exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/shells exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Last edited by San2ban (2010-10-01 15:19:03)

Inxsible · 2010-09-28 15:24:05

There is something to be said about searching the forums and more importantly reading the stickies.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

But as B mentions in that thread, for you to get so many file conflicts is not right. How long between your updates?

and please use code tags to show output and commands.

San2ban · 2010-09-28 15:31:57

I update regularly. From last 2 weeks, this is happening. I put the 'filesystem' in ignore pkg in pacman.conf, update/upgrade and then remove it.
pl. take my word that i update regularly, and this is happening from 2 weeks.

San2ban · 2010-09-29 15:30:18

should I delete the files, which the pacman says as 'exists'?

karol · 2010-09-29 15:46:29

San2ban wrote:

should I delete the files, which the pacman says as 'exists'?

For this particular package it may not be a good idea. How did you install it in the first place: via pacman or did you copy those files by hand?

lilsirecho · 2010-09-29 16:25:52

Perhaps you should do e2fsck on the drive and then try to upgrade.

San2ban · 2010-09-29 17:03:52

Karol, i did nothing , only pacman -Syu.
Filesystem s one of the packages listed, which is listed, and not installing. Since it tries to upgrade/install the filesystem first, other packages that are downloaded, for eg, dbus, dbus core, etc are also not upgraded

San2ban · 2010-09-29 17:08:04

shall I force install? Getting desperate, since today Xorg 1.9 is downloaded (SYu), but not installed, due to the file system conflict

karol · 2010-09-29 17:34:44

San2ban wrote:

shall I force install? Getting desperate, since today Xorg 1.9 is downloaded (SYu), but not installed, due to the file system conflict

Yes, forcing may fix it, but please, backup first and have a liveCD ready, just in case.
I fear that it may overwrite with the default settings, I'm not sure if '-f' creates .pacnew files.

Inxsible · 2010-09-30 05:25:22

you better not delete or merge any file. Those files that are listed are not just any config file. Your system may be rendered inoperable if you delete or replace them with new ones.

Allan · 2010-09-30 05:27:39

DO NOT FORCE!

Allan · 2010-09-30 05:31:29

So now that is out of the way...

Look in the folder /var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-20xx.xx-x and tell us what files you have there. It appears at least the "files" file is lost...

Make one and add this to it

%FILES%
bin/
boot/
dev/
etc/
etc/arch-release
etc/crypttab
etc/fstab
etc/group
etc/gshadow
etc/host.conf
etc/hosts
etc/issue
etc/ld.so.conf
etc/ld.so.conf.d/
etc/modprobe.d/
etc/modprobe.d/usb-load-ehci-first.conf
etc/motd
etc/nsswitch.conf
etc/passwd
etc/profile
etc/profile.d/
etc/resolv.conf
etc/securetty
etc/shadow
etc/shells
etc/skel/
home/
lib/
lib/modules/
media/
media/cd/
media/dvd/
media/fl/
mnt/
opt/
proc/
root/
sbin/
srv/
srv/ftp/
srv/http/
sys/
tmp/
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/include/
usr/lib/
usr/local/
usr/local/bin/
usr/local/games/
usr/local/include/
usr/local/lib/
usr/local/man/
usr/local/sbin/
usr/local/share/
usr/local/share/man
usr/local/src/
usr/sbin/
usr/share/
usr/share/man/
usr/share/man/man1/
usr/share/man/man2/
usr/share/man/man3/
usr/share/man/man4/
usr/share/man/man5/
usr/share/man/man6/
usr/share/man/man7/
usr/share/man/man8/
usr/share/misc/
usr/src/
var/
var/cache/
var/cache/man/
var/empty/
var/empty/.keep
var/games/
var/lib/
var/lib/misc/
var/local/
var/lock/
var/log/
var/log/old/
var/mail
var/opt/
var/run/
var/spool/
var/spool/mail/
var/tmp/

%BACKUP%
etc/fstab    57c5cc9da249c3b06a70fd7efb8c34a5
etc/crypttab    e5d8323a4dbee7a6d0d2a19cbf4b819f
etc/group    75c7e1770305e1f3b75c52785c137611
etc/hosts    81b3cb42a6ddabc2ed2310511ee9c859
etc/ld.so.conf    6e488ffecc8ba142c0cf7e2d7aeb832e
etc/passwd    8a9042a2cedf6b6b47eb8973f14289cb
etc/shadow    b8355d9d2782f424f4cedcf682651be0
etc/gshadow    5340b9287b71ffe9d4d99510bffe933f
etc/resolv.conf    6f48288b6fcaf0065fcb7b0e525413e0
etc/motd    d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
etc/nsswitch.conf    13753e4e0964f3652b0cc60a28528bdf
etc/shells    40dac0de4c6b99c8ca97effbd7527c84
etc/host.conf    f28150d4c0b22a017be51b9f7f9977ed
etc/securetty    933dee67c58d452334d342c294342910
etc/profile    f7ba22b78c5d2b53f86227aa2447e7ea
etc/issue    1bdc5dba66947d74866a5df8ce9ef3b1

That may or may not work... so also backup all the conflicting files before running pacman again.

San2ban · 2010-09-30 09:25:21

Dear Allan
Pl. see the contents of the folder you have mentioned. You are right, there is no filesystem 2009-00-
But there is a file-5.04-02.
Shall I go ahead and create the files you have mentioned

 
san2ban@sanjay ~]$ su
Password: 
[root@sanjay san2ban]# cd /var/lib/pacman/local
[root@sanjay local]# ls
a52dec-0.7.4-4                  liboobs-2.30.1-1
aalib-1.4rc5-6                  libpcap-1.1.1-1
acl-2.2.49-1                  libpciaccess-0.12.0-1
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alsa-lib-1.0.23-1              libproxy-0.4.6-1
archlinux-artwork-1.6-1              libraw1394-2.0.5-1
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aspell-0.60.6-4                  libsamplerate-0.1.7-1
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attr-2.4.44-1                  libshout-2.2.2-3
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libgpg-error-1.9-2              xorg-apps-7.5-3
libgsf-1.14.18-1              xorg-docs-1.5-1
libgssglue-0.1-2              xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.1-3
libgtop-2.28.1-1              xorg-fonts-75dpi-1.0.1-3
libgweather-2.30.2-1              xorg-fonts-alias-1.0.2-1
libical-0.46-1                  xorg-fonts-encodings-1.0.3-1
libice-1.0.6-1                  xorg-fonts-misc-1.0.1-1
libid3tag-0.15.1b-6              xorg-font-utils-7.5-2
libidl2-0.8.14-1              xorg-res-utils-1.0.3-3
libidn-1.16-1                  xorg-server-1.8.1.902-1
libiec61883-1.2.0-1              xorg-server-utils-7.5-6
libjpeg-8.0.2-1                  xorg-twm-1.0.4-3
libksba-1.0.8-1                  xorg-utils-7.6-3
libldap-2.4.23-1              xorg-xauth-1.0.4-1
libmad-0.15.1b-4              xorg-xinit-1.2.1-1
libmatroska-1.0.0-1              xorg-xkb-utils-7.5-2
libmng-1.0.10-3                  xplc-0.3.13-2
libmodplug-0.8.8.1-1              xproto-7.0.18-1
libmp4v2-1.9.1-1              xterm-261-1
libmpcdec-1.2.6-2              xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1
libmpeg2-0.5.1-1              xvidcore-1.2.2-1
libmtp-1.0.2-1                  xz-4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1
libnice-0.0.13-1              yelp-2.30.1-1
libnl-1.1-2                  zenity-2.30.0-1
libnotify-0.4.5-1              zlib-1.2.5-2
libogg-1.2.0-1                  zvbi-0.2.33-2
[root@sanjay local]#

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San2ban · 2010-09-30 09:27:10

SORRY GUYS, FORGOT TO USE CODE TAGS, Next TIME WILL NOT REPEAT
Thanks to Allan, edited

Last edited by San2ban (2010-09-30 11:30:02)

Allan · 2010-09-30 10:46:53

There is an edit button...

Anyway, this falls into the not a good thing category...

Try something like

mkdir /var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-2010.08-1/
cd /var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-2010.08-1/
touch depends desc files

then add what I posted above to the "files" file. "pacman -Syu" should hopefully work...

San2ban · 2010-09-30 12:18:08

Dear Allan

Hats off to you, your suggestion / guidance is invaluable. Everything worked perfectly, after I created the filesystem as you sugggested. My heartfelt thanks to you.
Is it OK to clear the cache?. Usually, after sucessful upgrade, I clear it by -Scc. Now, I am afraid
Some 20 packages upgraded just now, after your fix was implemented.
But for your suggestion, I would have S..... the intallation

As you can see from the number of my posts, I am still a newbie. One day in future, hope I will be of some use to the community

Allan · 2010-09-30 12:22:18

If you have room I would save your current packages by only doing a "pacman -Sc".

San2ban · 2010-09-30 13:58:37

Dear Allan

Need your help again. I just restarted the system for changes to take effect. Now, my GNOME desktop is not shown. In command line prompt, when I give my login name, password, it is saying wrong.
unable to login as superuser also.
tried to login in 'fallback mode', not possible, same message.
what might have gone wrong?. only thing I can think of is, i moved some .pacnew files into their orginal files, (eg: resolv.conf.pacnew to reolv.conf)

do not suggest a fresh install, though I have the 2010.05 ISO CD. Mine is a dial up connection. And again, no wvdial, .......so....too much trouble

karol · 2010-09-30 14:02:46

San2ban wrote:

Dear Allan
Need your help again. I just restarted the system for changes to take effect. Now, my GNOME desktop is not shown. In command line prompt, when I give my login name, password, it is saying wrong.
unable to login as superuser also.
tried to login in 'fallback mode', not possible, same message.
what might have gone wrong?. only thing I can think of is, i moved some .pacnew files into their orginal files, (eg: resolv.conf.pacnew to reolv.conf)
do not suggest a fresh install, though I have the 2010.05 ISO CD. Mine is a dial up connection. And again, no wvdial, .......so....too much trouble

How did you merge those .pacnew files? If you just moved them, then you reset your settings: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105301

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Allan · 2010-09-30 14:04:45

Looks like some of those files were overwritten... they should not have been... Boot into the live. Mount your / somewhere, chroot into it and then change the root password. Then boot as root and readd your user.

San2ban · 2010-09-30 14:09:19

Dear Karol
If something had not been done for the file system, -Syu would have simply downloaded 'n' number of packages, without installing them.

What I fail to understand is, I update regularly, and how this file-system conflict cropped up.

I never installed anything manually, but for wvdial, since base-install does not have it. Plain ppp does not work. I have put in 300hours or more than that, trying everything on web.

karol · 2010-09-30 14:19:42

You wrote you moved resolv.conf.pacnew to resolv.conf. If you did the same for /etc/shadow you reset your passwords and you can't get it.

Inxsible · 2010-09-30 17:23:30

Ummm...

It seems that you don't read all the posts
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 08#p833408

also, right after my post Allan told you not to Force install.

San2ban · 2010-09-30 17:24:28

After a long struggle, I am now able to log in, only in CLI. Gnome not loading. In CLI, as user / SU when I try to start GNOME by 'gnome-session', it says " warning cannot open display".
I have checked rc.conf, inittab, xorg, all connected files. Could not find anything.

Also during start up, It displays some message, which I cant read properly, since it just flies past. Is there a way to hold it and read the message?

San2ban · 2010-09-30 17:26:38

Dear Inxisible

How did you conclude that I force installed?. I have not. But only created files as suggested by Allan

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