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I did a -Suf
Is that going to destroy my system?
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You will be fine. See earlier in this thread.
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You will be fine. See earlier in this thread.
Thanks!
sorry about the double post. I posted that other thread before I saw this one.
Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-10-09 04:07:46)
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B-Con wrote:Dieter@be wrote:klibc seems like a pretty fundamental library, why don't I have it? Is it only for people into writing their own initramfs etc?
Are you sure you don't have it?
$ pacman -Qi klibc
It's required by mkinitcpio. I don't think you're upgrading your kernel without it, unless you're do that manually. It's in [base], so I would think you have it.Odd, it appears now in 'pacman -Syu' output where it didn't yesterday. Maybe repo lag...
Probably your mirror hadn't synced yet.
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Thanks for the fix. However, would anyone care to explain (briefly) what is the cause of the error? Is it a pacman bug? I don't have much experience in linux programming but I like to know why things happen and how.
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I followed all posts but I've the same problem with pacman -Syu :
errore: impossibile inizializzare l'operazione richiesta (impossibile soddisfare le dipendenze)
:: ipw3945: richiede kernel26<2.6.27
I tried to install again to do:
pacman -S klibc (but with the same problem)
pacman -Suf (but with the same problem)
I tried again to do:
rm /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm (but asm is a directory).
Do you have news how resolving my problems???
Thank you.
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Ok, I've already found the solution...........founded on this forum:
pacman -R ipw3945
pacman -Syu
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Should people who have used -f also remove this link?
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Should people who have used -f also remove this link?
No, it would be removed automatically. It was much safer to remove the link manually then upgrade. Be very careful when using -f.
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Man I just forced it with -f ... system still running fine as it should. I figured that if it needed updating no harm in forcing it anyway
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Man I just forced it with -f ... system still running fine as it should. I figured that if it needed updating no harm in forcing it anyway
The issue with the -f switch is that it will FORCEFULLY OVERWRITE files when upgrading. So if you run -Suf then you're essentially FORCING the upgrade of EVERY out of date package on your system. This is why the -f flag is so dangerous, what happens if you changed a file for your specific need. If using the -f switch, that file that you changed will be overwritten. Not the behavior one wants.
So instead of forcing the upgrade for every package, it would have been BETTER to ONLY force the upgrade to klibc.
pacman -Syf klibc
then
pacman -Su
for the rest of the update.
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I just did a
pacman -Rd klibc
and then
pacman -Syu
and finally
pacman -S klibc
this worked for me but I did it on core system fresh installed from CD no alsa, xorg or gnome etc. installed.
Regards
André
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That would have been fun if you had lost power in the middle....
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