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heliumhgy

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Registered: 2012-11-28

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[Solved] Unable to upgrade btrfs-progs

I get this error message:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
btrfs-progs: /usr/bin/fsck.btrfs exists in filesystem

and these packages are to be upgrade:
btrfs-progs-3.14-1  device-mapper-2.02.106-1  file-5.18-1  linux-3.14-5  lvm2-2.02.106-1  pcre-8.35-1

any idea?

Last edited by heliumhgy (2014-04-13 11:08:27)

graysky

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Re: [Solved] Unable to upgrade btrfs-progs

What does `pacman -Qo /usr/bin/fsck.btrfs` show?  When in doubt, rename that file and try the upgrade again; you can always delete the renamed file once you're sure it's not needed.

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heliumhgy

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Re: [Solved] Unable to upgrade btrfs-progs

$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/fsck.btrfs
error: No package owns /usr/bin/fsck.btrfs

hmm...

$ ls -la /usr/bin/fsck.btrfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr  2 21:00 /usr/bin/fsck.btrfs -> /usr/bin/true*

seems I can safely remove it

mhelvens

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Re: [Solved] Unable to upgrade btrfs-progs

Is it possible you created that symlink yourself, to suppress an error in the kernel upgrade output?

Funny. I ran into this very problem, and forgot all about creating that symlink until reading your post just now. ;-)