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stanna

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From: melb.au

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 99

[solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

Hello,

I went to do a full upgrade this morning as i do each monday as was presented with the below message. Just checking what is recommended to do to proceed as i dont want to break things to badly. Thanks

:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables' required by firewalld

Last edited by stanna (2018-09-23 23:54:36)

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 413

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

Workaround:

pacman -Syu firewalld

This will update your packages and reinstall firewalld with the right dependencies.

See here for further details: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60062#comment173187

Last edited by Pse (2018-09-23 23:53:16)

stanna

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From: melb.au

Registered: 2017-03-24

Posts: 99

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

perfect, Thanks Pse.

i must of been searching for the wrong terms or breezed right past that page about this issue.

upgraded successfully and now marked as solved.

grisu48

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Registered: 2017-06-07

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

I had the same issue and could resolve it also successufully with

pacman -Syu firewalld

epinephrine

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From: Frankfurt

Registered: 2012-10-18

Posts: 92

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

It is really annoying that this kind of manual interventions keep happening. Are there any plans to ship some kind of update meta information when synchronizing with arch servers that let pacman handle such problems automatically? Especially reinstallation of packages, upgrading packages in the right order and overwriting of files (see all those announcements of files that need to be overwritten).

ZiNez

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Registered: 2018-01-06

Posts: 10

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

Workaround:

pacman -Syu firewalld

This will update your packages and reinstall firewalld with the right dependencies.

See here for further details: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60062#comment173187

Thanks a lot, that worked just fine

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

It is really annoying that this kind of manual interventions keep happening. Are there any plans to ship some kind of update meta information when synchronizing with arch servers that let pacman handle such problems automatically? Especially reinstallation of packages, upgrading packages in the right order and overwriting of files (see all those announcements of files that need to be overwritten).

Yeah, there are plans, and in fact it's existed for a number of years now. Just, not by Arch Linux.

... It's called Manjaro, you can get it here
Also, this script should be sufficiently terrifying to stop people from wishing for to "let pacman handle such problems automatically".

...

If anything, we could have had a news post for this, but idk, I don't see the point if the solution was to revert the package changes, and publish a new release of firewalld *which will magically fix everything for everyone* once the new iptables/firewalld migrate out of testing.

Also see the linked bug report, and note that due to a miscommunication between devs, the new iptables package that was never supposed to be released to stable, was in fact released to stable despite known issues. So this was not exactly a super common situation, and if miscommunication is going to happen then it can mess up any distro.

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ThePeach

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2014-06-08

Posts: 40

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Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

I'm getting a similar error but with a dependency by core:

# pacman -Syu 
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables' required by core

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,373

Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

@ThePeach try `pacman -Syu ebtables`

ThePeach

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2014-06-08

Posts: 40

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Re: [solved] iptables (1:1.6.2-3) breaks dependency 'ebtables'

@ThePeach try `pacman -Syu ebtables`

lovely! thanks a lot loqs