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zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

Posts: 318

[Solved]Cannot update, systemd-sysvcompat confilct

Hello,
I tried to upgrade system today and I cannot. I get this output:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/halt already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/init already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/poweroff already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/reboot already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/runlevel already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/shutdown already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/bin/telinit already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz already exists in filesystem
systemd-sysvcompat: το /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz already exists in filesystem

I found in another thread that this can be solved with fsck, but it doesn't work in my case. I with --force and I didn't get any errors, but I still cannot upgrade and get the above errors.

Last edited by zaxdan69 (2016-10-11 18:09:36)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [Solved]Cannot update, systemd-sysvcompat confilct

This error is covered in the wiki.

zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

Posts: 318

Re: [Solved]Cannot update, systemd-sysvcompat confilct

In which section?

EDIT:
I couldn't find where is in the wiki.
It seems that solved though after I force updated systemd-sysvcompat.

Last edited by zaxdan69 (2016-10-11 18:08:51)

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved]Cannot update, systemd-sysvcompat confilct

I'm not sure where you were looking, but it has a dedicated section under "troubleshooting" on pacman's page.

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zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

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Re: [Solved]Cannot update, systemd-sysvcompat confilct

Yes is there. But I didn't know where to look. I searched for systemd and sysvcompat.

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved]Cannot update, systemd-sysvcompat confilct

Searching for the error would have brought it right up.