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ktfh

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Registered: 2014-01-03

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upgrading filesystem

im having trouble upgrading the filesystem

sudo pacman -Q filesystem
filesystem 2014.06-1

sudo pacman -S filesystem
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (1): filesystem-2014.06-2

Total Installed Size:   0.01 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                     [#####################] 100%
(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: /bin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/arch-release exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/os-release exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem
filesystem: /lib exists in filesystem
filesystem: /lib64 exists in filesystem
filesystem: /sbin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/lib/modprobe.d/usb-load-ehci-first.conf exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/lib64 exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/local/share/man exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/share/man/man7/archlinux.7.gz exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/lock exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/mail exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/run exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

should i --force it or delete all the stuff in these directories?

pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin /lib64 /lib | pacman -Qm -

error: No package owns /bin
error: No package owns /sbin
error: No package owns /usr/sbin
error: No package owns /lib64
error: No package owns /lib

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: upgrading filesystem

What's the output of

stat -c %s /var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-2014.06-1/files

?

ktfh

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Registered: 2014-01-03

Posts: 7

Re: upgrading filesystem

stat -c %s /var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-2014.06-1/files
0

possibly unrelated detail, everything is spontaneously segfaulting.

Last edited by ktfh (2014-07-03 21:41:42)

karol

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Re: upgrading filesystem

Something happened to your package database. Generally in such situations you have to force the update of this package. Since this is the filesystem package, it's even more risky.
You can cross your fingers and just do it or wait for somebody else to come here, maybe with a better idea.

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Re: upgrading filesystem

stat -c %s /var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-2014.06-1/files
0

possibly unrelated detail, everything is spontaneously segfaulting.

Sounds like a bad case of filesystem corruption to me. Check the health of your drive from a liveCD, and back up anything you don't already have a backup of.

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ktfh

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Registered: 2014-01-03

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Re: upgrading filesystem

I forced the update through and everything seems fine now. No segfaults yet. Should i delete these directories to prevent the error in the future?

filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/arch-release exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/os-release exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem
filesystem: /lib exists in filesystem
filesystem: /lib64 exists in filesystem
filesystem: /sbin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/lib/modprobe.d/usb-load-ehci-first.conf exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/lib64 exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/local/share/man exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/share/man/man7/archlinux.7.gz exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/lock exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/mail exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/run exists in filesystem

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: upgrading filesystem

No, let them be.
The problem was with the package database. The files and the directories themselves are fine and they are of vital importance.

l0vot

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Posts: 117

Re: upgrading filesystem

filesystem was most likely replacing directories with symlinks, you can check if you want but I know for a fact
/bin
/sbin
/lib64
/lib
are all symlinks now, and removing them is probably the fastest way to brick your machine, or at least it used to be.

karol

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Re: upgrading filesystem

l0vot, that symlink change happened a long long time ago and OP was using filesystem 2014.06-1, so his system was up to date before it suffered some corruption.