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#1 2018-09-20 11:05:26
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[SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
Hello,
I'm having a system update problem that I'm not sure how to proceed. I've checked through the wiki and tried to find existing forum posts that address this problem, but haven't found a good answer that addresses my specific problem.
pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community 4.6 MiB 7.84M/s 00:01 [####################################################################################################] 100%
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace apache-ant with extra/ant? [Y/n] y
:: Replace kde-syndication with extra/syndication? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
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Total Installed Size: 8012.83 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 309.78 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(411/411) checking keys in keyring [####################################################################################################] 100%
(411/411) checking package integrity [####################################################################################################] 100%
(411/411) loading package files [####################################################################################################] 100%
(411/411) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
audit: /var/log exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.specific problem is :
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
audit: /var/log exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.I've tried seeing if any package owns /var/log
pacman -Qo
error: No package owns /var/logfile /var/log
/var/log: symbolic link to /tmp/asd-root/var/log--- SOLUTION
Don't have /var/log as a symbolic link
Note, Anything-sync-daemon uses symbolic links.
Thanks for your time.
Last edited by unified (2018-09-20 14:48:18)
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#2 2018-09-20 12:16:27
- Allan
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
What does "file /var/log" give?
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#3 2018-09-20 12:17:26
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
And please use [ code ] and not [ quote ] tags for pasting output.
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#4 2018-09-20 12:23:19
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
file /var/log
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#5 2018-09-20 13:06:02
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
Don't symlink. Use a mount or a bind mount.
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#6 2018-09-20 13:12:50
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
I'm not sure how I ended up with a symlink for /var/log in the first place. How would I go about changing that?
Also unless that changed recently how would that prevent an update? This is an old install.
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#7 2018-09-20 13:55:00
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu /var/log exists in filesystem error
Thanks Allan for the _hint_ to get me in the right direction.
Problem was running ASD (Anything-Sync-Daemon) which uses symlinks.
This is solved for me now.
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