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Koven

Member

Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 154

Error upgrading kernel

I get these errors when I'm trying to upgrade my kernel.

[root@koven koven]# pacman -S kernel26

Targets: kernel26-2.6.16.20-1

Total Package Size:   17.3 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.alias: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.ccwmap: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.dep: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.ieee1394map: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.inputmap: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.isapnpmap: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.ofmap: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.pcimap: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.seriomap: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.symbols: exists in filesystem
  kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.usbmap: exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Regards

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Error upgrading kernel

These are harmless, just -Sf the kernel.

Cerebral

Forum Fellow

From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Error upgrading kernel

You can probably just force the install:

pacman -Sf kernel26

I don't think I see anything there that would get hurt after forcing.

Koven

Member

Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 154

Re: Error upgrading kernel

Solved, thank you very much

Regards