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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Upgrade failure

Hi, everybody,

This is the result of a routine upgrade:

[root@stovepipebox alexey]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      24.5K    6.7K/s 00:00:04 [####################################] 100%
 extra                    311.9K   31.1K/s 00:00:10 [####################################] 100%
 community                333.5K   58.9K/s 00:00:06 [####################################] 100%
 kdemod is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: firefox: ignoring package upgrade (2.0.0.12-2 => 2.0.0.14-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: gpm-1.20.3-1  imagemagick-6.4.1.0-1  libxml2-2.6.32-1  libxslt-1.1.23-1  tar-1.20-2
         wget-1.11.1-1

Total Download Size:    4.99 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
 gpm-1.20.3-1-i686        132.5K   49.2K/s 00:00:03 [####################################] 100%
 tar-1.20-2-i686          574.1K   43.8K/s 00:00:13 [####################################] 100%
 wget-1.11.1-1-i686       466.5K   49.7K/s 00:00:09 [####################################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 imagemagick-6.4.1.0...  1982.3K   42.0K/s 00:00:47 [####################################] 100%
 libxml2-2.6.32-1-i686   1593.2K   43.0K/s 00:00:37 [####################################] 100%
 libxslt-1.1.23-1-i686    366.2K   35.4K/s 00:00:10 [####################################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(6/6) checking for file conflicts                   [####################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@stovepipebox alexey]#

What am I to do next?
Interestingly, pacman.log contains nothing beyond these two lines:

[2008-05-02 10:45] synchronizing package lists
[2008-05-02 10:45] starting full system upgrade

Last edited by Llama (2008-05-02 06:56:54)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Upgrade failure

pacman -Sf gpm then pacman -Syu

See the news for more info

Last edited by mcmillan (2008-05-02 06:59:45)

TjPhysicist

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From: Waterloo, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-12

Posts: 126

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Re: Upgrade failure

o lol, i just rm ed the problem file and redid pacman -Syu...it works so far. I did that more on instinct more than anything else.

-Tj

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-Tj
Now reborn as Tjh_ (to keep it similar to my username in other places)