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erville

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From: Philippines

Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

When I try to upgrade "filesystem" I get the following error:

erwin@villejo ~ % sudo pacman -S filesystem
Password: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): filesystem-2012.6-1

Total Installed Size:   0.30 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.23 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /var/lock exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/run exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I searched the forums and found out that /var/lock and /var/run are symlinked to /run/lock and /run respectively:

erwin@villejo ~ % ls -ln /var/{lock,run}
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 9 Apr  1 18:20 /var/lock -> /run/lock/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 4 Apr  1 18:20 /var/run -> /run/

Could these symlinks to /run and /run/lock be the problem? I checked my /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab and both files aren't there so I assume that they're not mounted as tmpfs. Also, I do not have a separate var partition.

How do I get around this? Is it safe to delete the symlinks? Or should I force install "filesystem"?

Last edited by erville (2012-06-04 17:52:04)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,646

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

When was the last time you did a full update (pacman -Syu)?

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,158

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

If you use the [testing] repo you should subscribe to the arch-dev-public mailing list

http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-pu … 19425.html

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

If you use the [testing] repo you should subscribe to the arch-dev-public mailing list

And post in the [testing subforum!

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FrankCastle

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Registered: 2012-04-20

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

try pacman -Sf filesystem

erville

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From: Philippines

Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

Marked as solved. That was embarrassing, solution was in arch-dev-public mailing list all along. Thanks arojas. In my defense, I did subscribe to the said mailing list but on a separate email address, which I later on deleted. My bad. Lesson learned.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response!

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,280

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

... And, I am moving this over to the testing forum...

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attila123

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Registered: 2012-04-20

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

As this is the first google hit for the error message, let me post another thread which has more info than this:
http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2909

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade "filesystem" package due to file conflicts

Wouldn't it make more sense to just go to the main page of archlinux ?

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