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ibes

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From: Austria

Registered: 2013-04-26

Posts: 10

error: extract: not overwriting dir

Hello,

it has been about two weeks since I started getting the error message quoted in this thread's topic. The output of my most recent upgrade process looks like this:

:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (10): alsa-lib-1.0.27.1-1  alsa-utils-1.0.27.1-1  harfbuzz-0.9.17-1
               jfsutils-1.1.15-4  kbd-1.15.5-4  krb5-1.11.2-4  mpg123-1.15.4-1
               systemd-204-2  systemd-sysvcompat-204-2  wireless_tools-29-8

Total Download Size:    6.28 MiB
Total Installed Size:   27.47 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       -1.65 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages ...
 jfsutils-1.1.15-4-x...   167.5 KiB   596K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 kbd-1.15.5-4-x86_64     1075.5 KiB   618K/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
 krb5-1.11.2-4-x86_64    1073.4 KiB   499K/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
 systemd-204-2-x86_64       2.2 MiB   467K/s 00:05 [######################] 100%
 systemd-sysvcompat-...     5.8 KiB   523K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 wireless_tools-29-8...    87.3 KiB   196K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 alsa-lib-1.0.27.1-1...   403.9 KiB   324K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 alsa-utils-1.0.27.1...   916.0 KiB   612K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 harfbuzz-0.9.17-1-x...   239.2 KiB   601K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 mpg123-1.15.4-1-x86_64   190.6 KiB   212K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
(10/10) checking keys in keyring                   [######################] 100%
(10/10) checking package integrity                 [######################] 100%
(10/10) loading package files                      [######################] 100%
(10/10) checking for file conflicts                [######################] 100%
(10/10) checking available disk space              [######################] 100%
( 1/10) upgrading alsa-lib                         [######################] 100%
( 2/10) upgrading alsa-utils                       [######################] 100%
( 3/10) upgrading harfbuzz                         [######################] 100%
( 4/10) upgrading jfsutils                         [######################] 100%
( 5/10) upgrading kbd                              [######################] 100%
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ppc
error: problem occurred while upgrading kbd
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

According to pacman.log, other packages affected were libreoffice-common, thunderbird, cracklib, groff and icu. The problem can be worked around by reinstalling the affected packages but of course this is not really a clean approach.

Any help will be appreciated!

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,176

Re: error: extract: not overwriting dir

It seems somehow that directory got corrupted; since all files are owned by kbd; I'd manually remove /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ and reinstall kbd; then everything should work fine again