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snoopy

Member

Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 25

fresh install

hello all, did a fresh install and after pacman -Syu I'm having these error messages:

checking for file conflicts....
error: the following files conflict were found:
grub: /usr/share/grub: exists in filesystem
error occured, no packages were upgraded

it's the first time I see this message after an Arch install and wondering if it's important.
I removed the actual /usr/shared/grub folder and re-run pacman and i've been able to upgrade, but still have another error about "libreadline.so.5"

sh: error while loading shared librairies: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

I don't know what to do about that one..
Any sugestion
thank you

ruwach

Member

Registered: 2004-06-14

Posts: 143

Re: fresh install

hello, i just had the same problem
here is what i did.

i did a pacman -R grub
then i did my update
(pacman -Syu)
then after everything installed,
i did a pacman -S grub and now i think i am ok.

i have not rebooted yet 

ruwach

Member

Registered: 2004-06-14

Posts: 143

Re: fresh install

oh, i almost forgot,
when you reinstall grub, it overwrites menu1.st
so you will have to edit it

jftaylor21

Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2004-02-21

Posts: 237

Re: fresh install

You can add NoUpgrade = boot/grub/menu.lst to your pacman.conf and you won't have to worry about pacman overwriting your menu.lst file again.

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Folding@Home

iLLucionist

Member

From: Groningen, Netherlands

Registered: 2005-09-09

Posts: 18

Re: fresh install

rm -r /usr/share/grub
pacman -Syu

Done!

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-- Simplicity is the highest level of complexity.

jko

Member

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 25

Re: fresh install

Hi,

how/why does this behaviour occur at all?  Is it a bug?

Moo-Crumpus

Member

From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,487

Re: fresh install

I won't have my grub replaced automatically - it boots my machine! I don't know if it is a bug, I'ld name it a feature.

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jko

Member

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 25

Re: fresh install

I won't have my grub replaced automatically - it boots my machine! I don't know if it is a bug, I'ld name it a feature.

Isn't that the reason why they implemented things like "IgnorePkg" and "HoldPkg?  Hey, if "grub" and "kernel" and [others] were listed in the IgnorePkg-List by default, *then* you might call it a feature.  As it is right now, pacman simply aborts for reasons which are beyond my (admittedly very limited) understanding.  I'm just asking *why* it aborts.  Is that reasonable? How could one forsee this?

Talking about "booting your machine":  if one simply follows the instructions as mentioned above (rm -r /usr/share/grub respectively: pacman -R grub) you might still end up with a machine that does not boot, as pacman does not tell you that you'll have to re-invoke grub(8).