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When I try to upgrade pacman I get the following:
gordiegii@Ion-Arch ~]$ sudo pacman -S pacman
Password:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): pacman-4.0.3-1
Total Installed Size: 3.54 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking package integrity [###################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [###################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
pacman: /usr/bin/cleanupdelta exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/makepkg exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pacman exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pacman-db-upgrade exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pacman-key exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pacman-optimize exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pacsort exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pactree exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/pkgdelta exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/rankmirrors exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/repo-add exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/repo-elephant exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/repo-remove exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/testdb exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/testpkg exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/bin/vercmp exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/include/alpm.h exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/include/alpm_list.h exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/lib/libalpm.a exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/lib/libalpm.so exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7 exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pacman-scripts.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man3/libalpm.3.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man5/PKGBUILD.5.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man5/makepkg.conf.5.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man5/pacman.conf.5.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/makepkg.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/pacman-key.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/pacman.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/pkgdelta.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/repo-add.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/repo-remove.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/vercmp.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/ChangeLog.proto exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-split.proto exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD.proto exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/proto.install exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pacman exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch ~]$
Has anybody seen this or have any idea how to fix it?
Should I just delete all these files?
I was getting a gcc / gcc-libs error before but reinstalling gcc as per other forum help fixed that.
Last edited by GordieGii (2012-04-29 15:29:26)
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This issue is extensively documented/discussed on these forums. Do a quick search and you'll find plenty of topics with info on how to solve this.
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What do you run 'sudo pacman -S pacman' in the first place? Have you tried running just 'sudo pacman -Syu'?
What's the output of
stat -c %s $(find /var/lib/pacman/local -name "pacman-4*")/files
?
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@Gcool: I did a quick search and could not find anything that matched my symptoms. The only things I found that seemed to apply were the gcc / gcc-libs issue which I resolved and merging my pacman.conf.pacnew file into pacman.conf file (only two non-comments were new and they didn't seem related).
Perhaps I can't assess the applicability of a post to my symptoms.
@karol: I did -Syu, as I always do, but this time I got this:
...
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n]
I tried both 'Yes' and 'no' and both failed. 'No' took much longer because it had to download a couple hundred packages (I have been trying to resolve this myself for over a week and the list keeps getting longer) before failing so I switched to just pacman.
Pacman was in the list of packages and I couldn't figure out how to exclude it to see if the others would update. Reinstalling gcc worked.
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch man]$ stat -c %s $(find /var/lib/pacman/local -name "pacman-4*")/files
0
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch man]$
Please pardon my newbieness, I came from Ubuntu when GnomeBloat became too much for my Intel ATOM and am still learning the Arch way.
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The idea is to answer "N" to the first question. When you do that, you get some "exists in filesystem" errors if I understand correctly?
Have a look here for an explanation and how to fix it.
Burninate!
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Seems something ate his metadata as his 'files' file for pacman is empty.
One way to fix this is by using the '--force' switch: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=138157
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@Gcool: all but two of the 'file exists' are gone. All that's left now is this:
...
pacman: /usr/bin/pacman exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch man]$
If I remove either of them I get one of these:
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch man]$ sudo pacman -Syu
sudo: pacman: command not found
or
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch man]$ sudo pacman -Syu
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[gordiegii@Ion-Arch man]$
@karol: Does that mean I should not have manually deleted those hundred and twenty something files as per Gcool's link? (my fingers are sore)
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One of the 2 remaining files is the actual pacman binary, so you can't move/remove that one obviously.
Just for this one occasion (never ever use the -f option otherwise), it should be ok to do:
# pacman -Syy
# pacman -Sf pacman
# pacman -Syu
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That did the trick.
It seems to me that perhaps it would have worked anyway even if I hadn't querried ownership and renamed all those files...
Anyway, thanks for your help.
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