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Aquila

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Registered: 2012-12-23

Posts: 46

[SOLVED]/bin Issue still exists after update intervention

Hi there,

I'm updating my arch after 3 months. Of course there is the necessary update intervention https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/

I ran the first command
$ pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -

And I only had grub-common pop up. I just fixed that by updating it. After that nothing appears.

For the second command I tried the three repositories in my /etc/pacman.conf: core,extra, and community
$ paclist <repo> | awk ' { print $1 } ' | pacman -Ql - | grep ' /s\?bin/\| /usr/sbin/'

Nothing showed up for that and nothing showed up for the last command. I have no ignored packages.

At this point, it seems I should not have this problem.

I've tried to do a full system update, but I still get the following.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /sbin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded

Anyone have any ideas why I still get this error?

Thanks!

Last edited by Aquila (2013-08-23 00:29:48)

FlyingHappy

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From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: [SOLVED]/bin Issue still exists after update intervention

There is a big thread on this very topic somewhere around here.  But have you run

# pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash

Last edited by FlyingHappy (2013-08-23 00:20:04)

Aquila

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Registered: 2012-12-23

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED]/bin Issue still exists after update intervention

Haha I did not do that because right above that section it said "Update your system" and then started talking about backing up in case of ssh so I was like oh don't need to pay attention to this last section.

I am sorry for this topic.

Now I have a /sbin/init issue because I forgot to update the filesystem...I'm so dumb today...

Last edited by Aquila (2013-08-23 00:30:53)

FlyingHappy

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From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: [SOLVED]/bin Issue still exists after update intervention

I did that on my pi with the not updating filesystem.  An arch live usb with chroot and updating filesystem and bash fixed it for me.