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apholden

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Registered: 2020-01-15

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[SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

While updating Arch today, I got the following error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

I've been using the system for a several months and haven't had any trouble with it (except for a couple known issues documented in the home page).  A month ago, I installed the "yay" package manager to install and maintain FreeCAD, but I get the error with the usual "sudo pacman -Syu" as well.

When I checked the /opt folder, I saw folders for containerd, dotnet, and maven, all of which were installed from the standard repositories (not AUR).

Does anyone have any advice how I can diagnose this issue?  I'll be glad to provide fragments of log files or other information if that will help.

Thanks,

Andrew

Last edited by apholden (2020-01-15 13:18:28)

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: [SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

What is the output of

file /opt
pacman -Qo /opt

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apholden

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Registered: 2020-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

file /opt
/opt: symbolic link to /usr/local/opt
pacman -Qo /opt
error: No package owns /opt

apholden

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Registered: 2020-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

I forgot about the symlink.  I guess the package expected /opt to be a real directory.

Do you think the following would solve my issue (with migration to fstab if it works), or would I open myself up to more trouble?

rm /opt
mkdir /opt
mount --bind /usr/local/opt /opt

Last edited by apholden (2020-01-15 11:04:42)

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Re: [SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

Yes, bind mounts are the correct way to handle this.

See http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released/

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apholden

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Re: [SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

That fixed it.  Thanks for the help.  Also thanks for the article about the change to pacman.  That was an excellent explanation about the behavior.

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Re: [SOLVED] intel-media-sdk: /opt exists in filesystem

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