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Hi - tried a -Syu today but it crashed and burned with many repeats of the following line:
error: /var/lib/pacman/local/kde-common-3.5.4-2/desc: No such file or directoryI can't go through with an -Syu even after a reboot.
Everything still works, my system is not broken. I don't use KDE at all (XFCE4 is my desktop of choice), but I have a handful of apps installed which use various pieces / libraries from the KDE group.
How can I fix this problem and go through with a clean pacman -Syu?
Thanks
Francis
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Update - at the end of dozens of lines of the first error I get this:
error: the following file conflicts were found:
kde-common: /etc/dbus-1/session.d/kde.conf: exists in filesystem
kde-common: /etc/pam.d/kde: exists in filesystem
kde-common: /etc/pam.d/kde-np: exists in filesystem
kde-common: /etc/rc.d/kdm: exists in filesystem
kde-common: /opt/kde/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face.icon: exists in filesystem
kde-common: /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc: exists in filesystem
kde-common: /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc: exists in filesystem
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Your pacman db is broken. Fix it with
pacman -Sf kde-commonOffline
To get rid of these error messaages, I first had to get rid of the pacman kde-common library directory. It existed, but was missing files 'depends' and 'desc'.
rm -Rf /var/lib/pacman/local/kde-common-3.5.4-1Next, I followed brain0's good advice...
pacman -Sf kde-common
pacman -SyuThis solved the problem for me. Hope it helps.
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Your pacman db is broken. Fix it with
pacman -Sf kde-common
brain0 - thanks, this seems to have worked. I didn't need to do the rm -rf step, and now am currently updating via -Syu without a problem so far.
Cheers
Francis
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