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VenomGameworld

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Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 40

[SOLVED]cannot determine ownership of directory '/lib/modules'

Hi,

When I'm trying to upgrade glibc, I receive the infamous error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I followed the directions on the homepage and browsed the forum for any answers. Mostly I found workarounds for people who've used the --force parameter during the upgrade.
My question now is: what do you need to do next when you haven't done this?

The output of "pacman -Qo /lib/*" is:

/lib/ld-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libanl-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libanl.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libBrokenLocale-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libc-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libcidn-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libcidn.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libcrypt-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libcrypt.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libc.so.6 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libdl-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libdl.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libm-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libmemusage.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libm.so.6 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnsl-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnsl.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_compat-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_compat.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_db-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_db.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_dns-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_dns.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_files-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_files.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_hesiod-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_hesiod.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_nis-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_nisplus-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_nis.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libpcprofile.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libpthread-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libpthread.so.0 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libresolv-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libresolv.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/librt-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/librt.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libSegFault.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libthread_db-1.0.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libthread_db.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libutil-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libutil.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/lib/modules'

The last line seems to be the reason why I can't continue. What does this mean and how can I solve it?

In one of the topics someone proposed the following:

Some other package must still own the /lib directory.   Try

find /var/lib/pacman/local -name files | xargs grep "^lib/$"

and see if that prints more than glibc.

In my case it did only print a line about glibc:
/var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-1/files:lib/

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by VenomGameworld (2012-08-09 13:50:58)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [SOLVED]cannot determine ownership of directory '/lib/modules'

From the official news about all this:

Any files unowned by a package should either be deleted or moved to /usr/lib and any directories within /lib deleted (after they are empty)

The devs went to the trouble of providing detailed instructions for this upgrade - please use them.

VenomGameworld

Member

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED]cannot determine ownership of directory '/lib/modules'

Thanks mate!
I was focussing too much on the files that I forgot about the directory.
Deleted directory "modules" and the upgrade worked liked a charm.