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teMplaryum

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2007-09-11

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[SOLVED] Upgrade problem

I just ran pacman -Syu as I usually do on a daily basis, and I got this:

:: Replace gspcav1 with core/kernel26? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
Checking for package upgrades... 

Remove (1): gspcav1-1.00.20-7  

Total Removed Size:   0,40 MB

Targets (7): kernel26-2.6.27-2  catalyst-8.8-2  dhcpcd-4.0.2-1  gimp-2.6.1-1  
             libgdiplus-2.0-1  mono-2.0-1  wine-1.1.6-1  

Total Download Size:    0,00 MB
Total Installed Size:   292,80 MB

Then I removed the gspcav1 package manually with -Rncs, and tried again:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
Checking for package upgrades... 

Targets (7): catalyst-8.8-2  dhcpcd-4.0.2-1  gimp-2.6.1-1  kernel26-2.6.27-2  
             libgdiplus-2.0-1  mono-2.0-1  wine-1.1.6-1  

Total Download Size:    0,00 MB
Total Installed Size:   292,80 MB

I'm quite puzzled. And the fact that the total displayed download size is 0 MB (and I haven't downloaded any of the target packages previously), besides the error message being displayed before the list of targets, is a serious indication that something's not right. Any ideas?

Last edited by teMplaryum (2008-10-15 08:08:01)

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teMplaryum

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Registered: 2007-09-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade problem

I guess it resolved itself . Everything's fine now. Guess it was just a minor glitch with one of the packages which was fixed during the night...

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DASK

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From: Bakersfield, CA

Registered: 2008-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade problem

This issue is not resolved itself on my install yet. Anyone have a manual fix?

handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 719

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade problem

There is a kernel bug; downgrading the kernel & any dependencies (not many of them) seems to fix this problem.

In case you don't know, check your /var/log/pacman.log if you need to see what got upgraded, & /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ should have your older packages, unless you have cleaned them out.

Install from the cache as below:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/desired_package

It worked for me on two machines.

Last edited by handy (2008-10-18 11:16:42)

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