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I imagine the answer to this problem is SOMEWHERE but I can't find the solution. I ran sudo pacman -Syu and got this error message with mkinitcpio:
ERROR: file not found: '/usr/lib/modprobe.d/usb-load-ehci-first.conf'
I saw this bug but my config file is cut off before the mentioned "line 36," so it doesn't help me.
I suspect it has something to do with the filesystem because not too long ago I had to create a symlink at /etc/mtab because the system wasn't reading the mount points. I also noticed if I try to upgrade filesystem I get this error:
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
filesystem: /var/run exists in filesystem
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded.
I've seen threads concerning the /var/run existing in filesystem problem, but not anything to do with /etc/mtab causing conflicts. Something obviously weird is going on but I can't figure it out... I was almost considering reinstalling the system completely out of desperation but I thought I'd abstain from that action and ask for help first.
Last edited by felixculpa (2013-01-26 03:12:20)
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I do have that file, as part of the filesystem package as you suspect
Looks like you haven't had filesystem updated in a LONG time or dealt with some old update issues incorrectly. There's these two news posts
https://www.archlinux.org/news/filesyst … -required/
https://www.archlinux.org/news/filesyst … equired-1/
Last edited by mcmillan (2013-01-26 02:53:17)
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It was really weird. I have been following such steps when upgrading, but at some point I obviously did something that messed up the system.
I followed the steps you provided on the latter link.
pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem && rm -rf /var/run /var/lock && pacman -S filesystem
and then ran
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
and it ran correctly this time. I was really worried about this, I was too scared to even reboot the system, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction!
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