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TheShade007

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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[SOLVED]Cannot Upgrade system due to catalyst and kernel conflict!!

Hello guys,
I'm trying to update the system using pacman -Syu command and i'm getting a dependancy error :
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst-hook: requires linux<4.2

but when I do.. uname -r i get :
4.1.6-1-ARCH

So my kernel version is the one stated above but still I get the dependancy error... Is there any way to solve the issue or do I have to downgrade the kernel??

Last edited by TheShade007 (2015-10-21 08:26:18)

mpan

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Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Upgrade system due to catalyst and kernel conflict!!

No need to put exclamation marks in the title — screaming will not help you. More probably it'll make people not willing to even look at your thread. Also the subject is invalid: the conflict is with catalyst-hook, which is a foreign AUR package, not with catalyst.

The requirement applies to the version of linux package after the upgrade and this is 4.2.1, which is definetly not <4.2. Would be pointless to check that against package version that would be removed in the same upgrade.

As a solution you can do one of the following:

• Remove catalyst-hook and report the issue on its AUR page, then wait until the maintainer updates the package and install it again.

• Wait with system upgrade until the maintainer updates catalyst-hook.

• Temporarily ignore linux update with --ignore option, but since partial updates are not supported by Arch and most probably other things in the upgrade depend on 4.2.1 kernel, you may break your system.

Last edited by mpan (2015-09-29 05:00:16)

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TheShade007

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Upgrade system due to catalyst and kernel conflict!!

Sorry for the mistakes I did with the post ... This is my first post in this forum, so sorry again..
As for the issue with catalyst-hook, I think the maintainer fixed the issue as I am able to update my system as usual now..

catalyst is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do

Thank you for your support bro

EDIT : I had to remake the grub.cfg for using linux-lts as catalyst-hook now supports lts kernel.. So how and when should I switch back to linux core kernel?

Last edited by TheShade007 (2015-09-30 04:31:33)

byte

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Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Upgrade system due to catalyst and kernel conflict!!

If you're using the catalyst repo you should follow this thread: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

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