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eljoeb

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 37

Have been gone for a while and now Pacman won't update

Hi,

I've been gone for about a month and finally rebooted my computer.  Unfortunately, when I decided to do a system update, I got the following errors:

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.alias exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.ccwmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.dep exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.ieee1394map exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.inputmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.isapnpmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.ofmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.pcimap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.seriomap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.symbols exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.usbmap exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I saw the thing with gpm, and tried that.  There also seemed to be something going on with a kernel update, so maybe it's that.  Could anyone please help me?

Thanks

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 9,939

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Re: Have been gone for a while and now Pacman won't update

It seems your pacman database forgot about these files somehow...  I would do a "pacman -Sf kernel26" to get rid of the errors then a "pacman -Syu"

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eljoeb

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 37

Re: Have been gone for a while and now Pacman won't update

That seemed to work.  Thanks for the help!