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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 797

Can't upgrade device-mapper

When attempting to upgrade device-mapper I get the following errors:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
device-mapper: /usr/bin/blkdeactivate exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/bin/dmeventd exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/bin/dmsetup exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/bin/dmstats exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/include/libdevmapper-event.h exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/include/libdevmapper.h exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rules exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/libdevmapper-event.so exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02 exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/libdevmapper.so exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/devmapper-event.pc exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/devmapper.pc exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.service exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dm-event.socket exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-dm.rules exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/13-dm-disk.rules exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-dm-notify.rules exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/share/man/man8/blkdeactivate.8.gz exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/share/man/man8/dmeventd.8.gz exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/share/man/man8/dmsetup.8.gz exists in filesystem
device-mapper: /usr/share/man/man8/dmstats.8.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Short of forcing the upgrade (which I don't want to do) I don't know whow to fix this.  I also have no idea why this would've happened.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Can't upgrade device-mapper

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … 9.22_error

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 797

Re: Can't upgrade device-mapper

Thanks - it looks like the cause of the problem is that no package owns the files.  Presumably this makes it safe to use --force