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pkmorrison

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Registered: 2005-02-23

Posts: 15

udev, hotplug dependancy conflict - cant update udev

:? can anyone tell me where to look to break this chain
i've tried other approaches such as reinstalling hwd,
i don't understand the hotplug required by udev ???

pacman -Su
:: udev conflicts with hotplug. Remove hotplug? [Y/n]

Remove:  hotplug

Targets: udev-079-1

Total Package Size:   0.2 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]

checking package integrity... done.
error: this will break the following dependencies:
  hotplug: is required by hwd

[root@duffy ~]# pacman -R hwd
error: could not find hwd in database

[root@duffy ~]# pacman -Rfs hotplug
error: this will break the following dependencies:
  hotplug: is required by hwd
  hotplug: is required by udev

ozar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: udev, hotplug dependancy conflict - cant update udev

Take a look here to see if your problem is the same:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3700

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oz

Kern

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: udev, hotplug dependancy conflict - cant update udev

thx ozar, well posted.
i just hit the same prob ... will use your link to fix it.

pkmorrison

Member

Registered: 2005-02-23

Posts: 15

Re: udev, hotplug dependancy conflict - cant update udev

yep, that did it, thanks much for the pointer