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I got the following error when I tried to upgrade my system today:
$ pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 157.3 KiB 119 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
extra 1724.5 KiB 1265 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
community 6.6 MiB 2.84 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
multilib 175.4 KiB 713 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: libvterm01 and libvterm are in conflict. Remove libvterm? [y/N] y
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: jupyterlab will be installed before its jupyter-nbconvert dependency
Packages (160) adwaita-icon-theme-42.0+r1+gc144c3d75-1
alsa-card-profiles-1:0.3.50-1 appstream-0.15.3-1
appstream-qt-0.15.3-1 attica-5.93.0-1 binutils-2.38-4
blas-3.10.1-1 boost-1.78.0-2 boost-libs-1.78.0-2
breeze-icons-5.93.0-1 calibre-5.40.0-2 cblas-3.10.1-1
chromium-100.0.4896.127-2 cmake-3.23.1-1
cups-filters-1.28.15-1 enchant-2.3.2-2 evince-42.2-1
firefox-99.0.1-1 frameworkintegration-5.93.0-1 ghex-42.1-1
git-2.35.3-1 github-cli-2.8.0-1 go-2:1.18.1-1
gptfdisk-1.0.9-1 gvfs-1.50.0+r5+g747c7f6e-1 harfbuzz-4.2.0-3
harfbuzz-icu-4.2.0-3 haskell-citeproc-0.6.0.1-36
haskell-text-icu-0.8.0.1-10 iana-etc-20220325-1 icu-71.1-1
imagemagick-7.1.0.30-1
intellij-idea-community-edition-4:2022.1-1 iproute2-5.17.0-2
jack2-1.9.21-1 jupyter-nbclient-0.6.0-1
jupyter-nbconvert-6.5.0-2 jupyterlab-3.3.4-1
kactivities-5.93.0-1 kactivities-stats-5.93.0-1
karchive-5.93.0-1 kauth-5.93.0-1 kbookmarks-5.93.0-1
kcmutils-5.93.0-1 kcodecs-5.93.0-1 kcompletion-5.93.0-1
kconfig-5.93.0-1 kconfigwidgets-5.93.0-1 kcoreaddons-5.93.0-1
kcrash-5.93.0-1 kdbusaddons-5.93.0-1 kdeclarative-5.93.0-1
kded-5.93.0-1 kdesu-5.93.0-1 kdnssd-5.93.0-1
kglobalaccel-5.93.0-1 kguiaddons-5.93.0-1 kholidays-1:5.93.0-1
ki18n-5.93.0-1 kiconthemes-5.93.0-1 kidletime-5.93.0-1
kio-5.93.0-1 kirigami2-5.93.0-1 kitemmodels-5.93.0-1
kitemviews-5.93.0-1 kitty-0.25.0-1
kitty-shell-integration-0.25.0-1 kitty-terminfo-0.25.0-1
kjobwidgets-5.93.0-1 knewstuff-5.93.0-1
knotifications-5.93.0-1 knotifyconfig-5.93.0-1
kpackage-5.93.0-1 kparts-5.93.0-1 kpeople-5.93.0-1
kpty-5.93.0-1 kquickcharts-5.93.0-1 krunner-5.93.0-1
kservice-5.93.0-1 ktexteditor-5.93.0-1 ktextwidgets-5.93.0-1
kwallet-5.93.0-1 kwayland-5.93.0-2 kwidgetsaddons-5.93.0-1
kwindowsystem-5.93.0-1 kxmlgui-5.93.0-1 lapack-3.10.1-1
lib32-harfbuzz-4.2.0-3 lib32-icu-71.1-1 lib32-libxml2-2.9.13-2
libbpf-0.7.0-1 libbsd-0.11.6-1 libcdr-0.1.7-4
libe-book-0.1.3-11 libgit2-1:1.4.3-1 libical-3.0.14-3
libmnl-1.0.5-1 libmspub-0.1.4-12 libnfnetlink-1.0.2-1
libqalculate-4.1.1-2 libqxp-0.0.2-8 libreoffice-fresh-7.3.2-2
libsynctex-2021.59745-3 libusb-1.0.26-1 libvisio-0.1.7-7
libvterm-0.2-1 [removal] libvterm01-0.1.4-1 libxml2-2.9.13-2
libzmf-0.0.2-12 linux-5.17.3.arch1-1
linux-firmware-20220411.705f19a-1
linux-firmware-whence-20220411.705f19a-1 meson-0.62.0-2
neovim-0.7.0-1 nodejs-17.9.0-2 openexr-3.1.5-1
openssh-9.0p1-1 pandoc-2.17.1.1-12 pango-1:1.50.7-1
pavucontrol-1:5.0+r35+g964f298-1 pipewire-1:0.3.50-1
plasma-framework-5.93.0-2 postfix-3.7.0-3 postgresql-13.6-2
postgresql-libs-13.6-2 prison-5.93.0-1
python-entrypoints-0.4-2 python-gobject-3.42.1-1
python-ipykernel-6.13.0-1 python-jupyter_core-4.10.0-1
python-pyqt5-sip-12.10.1-1 python-setproctitle-1.2.3-1
python-setuptools-1:59.5.0-1 qqc2-desktop-style-5.93.0-1
qt5-base-5.15.3+kde+r137-2 qt5-wayland-5.15.3+kde+r44-1
qt5-webengine-5.15.9-2 qt5-webkit-5.212.0alpha4-13 r-4.1.3-2
raptor-2.0.15-19 ruby-3.0.4-1 ruby-public_suffix-4.0.7-1
scribus-1.5.8-4 semver-7.3.7-1 signal-desktop-5.39.0-1
smbclient-4.16.0-5 solid-5.93.0-1 sonnet-5.93.0-1
suitesparse-5.12.0-1 syndication-5.93.0-1
syntax-highlighting-5.93.0-1 texlive-bin-2021.59745-3
threadweaver-5.93.0-1 thunderbird-91.8.0-2 tracker3-3.3.0-2
vmaf-2.3.1-1 vte-common-0.68.0-2 vte3-0.68.0-2
webkit2gtk-2.36.0-3 xfsprogs-5.15.0-2
Total Download Size: 1730.62 MiB
Total Installed Size: 5861.46 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 226.93 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
intellij-idea-co... 408.0 MiB 3.70 MiB/s 01:50 [######################] 100%
linux-5.17.3.arc... 159.1 MiB 4.10 MiB/s 00:39 [######################] 100%
linux-firmware-2... 143.3 MiB 4.38 MiB/s 00:33 [######################] 100%
libreoffice-fres... 138.2 MiB 4.02 MiB/s 00:34 [######################] 100%
signal-desktop-5... 108.7 MiB 4.55 MiB/s 00:24 [######################] 100%
go-2:1.18.1-1-x86_64 104.1 MiB 3.63 MiB/s 00:29 [######################] 100%
chromium-100.0.4... 82.4 MiB 5.00 MiB/s 00:16 [######################] 100%
firefox-99.0.1-1... 62.7 MiB 3.59 MiB/s 00:17 [######################] 100%
r-4.1.3-2-x86_64 56.9 MiB 4.03 MiB/s 00:14 [######################] 100%
scribus-1.5.8-4-... 50.3 MiB 4.12 MiB/s 00:12 [######################] 100%
thunderbird-91.8... 49.2 MiB 3.76 MiB/s 00:13 [######################] 100%
qt5-webengine-5.... 48.6 MiB 4.31 MiB/s 00:11 [######################] 100%
calibre-5.40.0-2... 28.4 MiB 3.64 MiB/s 00:08 [######################] 100%
webkit2gtk-2.36.... 21.4 MiB 4.17 MiB/s 00:05 [######################] 100%
postgresql-13.6-... 17.3 MiB 3.23 MiB/s 00:05 [######################] 100%
texlive-bin-2021... 14.1 MiB 2.33 MiB/s 00:06 [######################] 100%
boost-1.78.0-2-x... 13.5 MiB 2.73 MiB/s 00:05 [######################] 100%
qt5-base-5.15.3+... 12.9 MiB 3.68 MiB/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
qt5-webkit-5.212... 12.3 MiB 3.88 MiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
icu-71.1-1-x86_64 10.8 MiB 3.00 MiB/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
lib32-icu-71.1-1... 10.1 MiB 2.77 MiB/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
cmake-3.23.1-1-x... 10.1 MiB 3.28 MiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
nodejs-17.9.0-2-... 9.4 MiB 3.35 MiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
pandoc-2.17.1.1-... 9.0 MiB 3.49 MiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
kio-5.93.0-1-x86_64 7.7 MiB 2.64 MiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
smbclient-4.16.0... 6.7 MiB 2.35 MiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
breeze-icons-5.9... 6.7 MiB 3.26 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
github-cli-2.8.0... 6.4 MiB 2.97 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
binutils-2.38-4-... 6.1 MiB 1739 KiB/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
git-2.35.3-1-x86_64 6.0 MiB 3.39 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
neovim-0.7.0-1-x... 5.7 MiB 3.05 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
kwidgetsaddons-5... 4.7 MiB 1643 KiB/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
adwaita-icon-the... 4.4 MiB 2.63 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
plasma-framework... 4.0 MiB 2.50 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
kitty-0.25.0-1-x... 3.9 MiB 1826 KiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
jupyterlab-3.3.4... 3.7 MiB 2.49 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
ktexteditor-5.93... 3.5 MiB 1929 KiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
ruby-3.0.4-1-x86_64 3.2 MiB 3.15 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
kwayland-5.93.0-... 3.0 MiB 1989 KiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
imagemagick-7.1.... 2.8 MiB 2.28 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
libqalculate-4.1... 2.4 MiB 2.20 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
lapack-3.10.1-1-... 2.4 MiB 1789 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
appstream-0.15.3... 2.2 MiB 2.42 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
boost-libs-1.78.... 2.1 MiB 2.43 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
ki18n-5.93.0-1-x... 1970.4 KiB 1813 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
knewstuff-5.93.0... 1938.8 KiB 2.57 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
evince-42.2-1-x86_64 1739.3 KiB 2.42 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
kxmlgui-5.93.0-1... 1718.8 KiB 1581 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
pipewire-1:0.3.5... 1636.4 KiB 2.50 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
frameworkintegra... 1587.9 KiB 2.20 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
syntax-highlight... 1396.9 KiB 2.23 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
postgresql-libs-... 1391.4 KiB 1424 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
postfix-3.7.0-3-... 1375.2 KiB 2.34 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
meson-0.62.0-2-any 1374.3 KiB 2.07 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
libxml2-2.9.13-2... 1362.0 KiB 2.33 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
kcoreaddons-5.93... 1353.7 KiB 1354 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
kconfig-5.93.0-1... 1180.6 KiB 2.10 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
openexr-3.1.5-1-... 1171.8 KiB 2.37 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kconfigwidgets-5... 1154.0 KiB 2.36 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
openssh-9.0p1-1-... 1117.3 KiB 1531 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
qt5-wayland-5.15... 1109.4 KiB 2.36 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
haskell-citeproc... 1105.5 KiB 2.06 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
suitesparse-5.12... 1099.1 KiB 2.35 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
iproute2-5.17.0-... 1071.6 KiB 1599 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
kparts-5.93.0-1-... 1022.7 KiB 2.25 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
syndication-5.93... 1021.5 KiB 2.17 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
gvfs-1.50.0+r5+g... 1013.7 KiB 1964 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
xfsprogs-5.15.0-... 1009.7 KiB 2.26 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
harfbuzz-4.2.0-3... 974.0 KiB 2.21 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libcdr-0.1.7-4-x... 958.3 KiB 2.08 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
ktextwidgets-5.9... 859.4 KiB 1546 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
cups-filters-1.2... 846.4 KiB 2001 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
solid-5.93.0-1-x... 825.8 KiB 1938 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
haskell-text-icu... 787.6 KiB 1862 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kwindowsystem-5.... 783.1 KiB 2023 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
tracker3-3.3.0-2... 733.7 KiB 1772 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kservice-5.93.0-... 719.0 KiB 1922 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libe-book-0.1.3-... 701.6 KiB 1493 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kcmutils-5.93.0-... 693.9 KiB 1640 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
lib32-harfbuzz-4... 663.7 KiB 1689 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
sonnet-5.93.0-1-... 657.9 KiB 1807 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libgit2-1:1.4.3-... 641.6 KiB 1553 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
lib32-libxml2-2.... 637.2 KiB 1448 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kitemmodels-5.93... 635.8 KiB 1700 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libvisio-0.1.7-7... 633.4 KiB 1583 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kcompletion-5.93... 622.1 KiB 1229 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
libical-3.0.14-3... 618.3 KiB 1472 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kirigami2-5.93.0... 593.8 KiB 1534 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kbookmarks-5.93.... 587.4 KiB 1712 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
python-setuptool... 562.5 KiB 1278 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
attica-5.93.0-1-... 545.5 KiB 1503 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kdeclarative-5.9... 513.9 KiB 1468 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kiconthemes-5.93... 513.7 KiB 1576 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
jupyter-nbconver... 512.1 KiB 1493 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kitemviews-5.93.... 510.7 KiB 1296 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kwallet-5.93.0-1... 496.4 KiB 1331 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
knotifications-5... 480.0 KiB 1263 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
jack2-1.9.21-1-x... 473.3 KiB 1192 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libmspub-0.1.4-1... 462.5 KiB 1432 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
threadweaver-5.9... 458.7 KiB 1119 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
raptor-2.0.15-19... 454.6 KiB 1408 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
vmaf-2.3.1-1-x86_64 410.5 KiB 1355 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
pango-1:1.50.7-1... 398.4 KiB 1030 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kholidays-1:5.93... 397.1 KiB 1189 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kpeople-5.93.0-1... 396.9 KiB 1167 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
iana-etc-2022032... 392.8 KiB 1255 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
krunner-5.93.0-1... 390.7 KiB 1094 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
karchive-5.93.0-... 380.4 KiB 1012 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
ghex-42.1-1-x86_64 373.3 KiB 1204 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
vte3-0.68.0-2-x86_64 358.8 KiB 1111 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kcodecs-5.93.0-1... 355.0 KiB 1172 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kpackage-5.93.0-... 338.0 KiB 735 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kguiaddons-5.93.... 325.9 KiB 987 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kactivities-5.93... 324.3 KiB 1118 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kjobwidgets-5.93... 321.4 KiB 1124 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kauth-5.93.0-1-x... 317.8 KiB 1096 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kdnssd-5.93.0-1-... 313.0 KiB 1010 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libqxp-0.0.2-8-x... 288.4 KiB 660 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kactivities-stat... 285.6 KiB 943 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kglobalaccel-5.9... 256.8 KiB 755 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
python-gobject-3... 253.7 KiB 926 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kdesu-5.93.0-1-x... 241.5 KiB 862 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kdbusaddons-5.93... 236.3 KiB 899 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
libbpf-0.7.0-1-x... 221.3 KiB 841 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
gptfdisk-1.0.9-1... 212.4 KiB 769 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
kpty-5.93.0-1-x86_64 206.2 KiB 764 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
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knotifyconfig-5.... 204.7 KiB 660 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
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(159/159) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%
(159/159) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
python-entrypoints: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/entrypoints.cpython-310.pyc exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I included all the output for completeness, but the relevant part (at the very end) is:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
python-entrypoints: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/entrypoints.cpython-310.pyc exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I'm pretty sure that I didn't accidentally install this file myself, because I've never run "pip" as root. I know that I could probably get the update to work by doing "pacman -Syyu --overwrite", but that seems like a bad idea given that I don't know what the underlying problem is. Does anybody have any ideas about what went wrong and what should be done to fix it?
Last edited by kalekundert (2022-04-19 01:04:41)
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You've previously loaded it as root, so the byte compiled file was created and cached. It's now part of the package, though, so you'll have to overwrite the old, untracked file. See the pacman wiki page.
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That makes sense, thanks!
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That makes sense, thanks!
How did you do?
What command did you use?
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How did you do?
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I solved this by renaming the offending/existing file with a .org extension and repeating the update.
Hope it helps.
Thanks!
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I don't remember, probably "pacman -Syyu --overwrite".
IIRC, my concern was that I didn't want to overwrite any files in /usr without understanding why there was a conflict in the first place. Scimmia explained that the conflict (probably) arose because the file in question was recently added to "python-entrypoints", but already existed on my machine due to having been generated and cached by python after I ran some code (as root) that imported the entrypoints module. Knowing that, and knowing that *.pyc files can be regenerated from the corresponding *.py files anyways, I felt safe overwriting it.
On this topic, I don't really understand why python packages in the repositories contain *.pyc files at all. But I checked a handful of packages and they all included *.pyc files, so there must be a reason.
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On this topic, I don't really understand why python packages in the repositories contain *.pyc files at all. But I checked a handful of packages and they all included *.pyc files, so there must be a reason.
Speed. If they aren't there, they have to be byte-compiled at runtime. If it's not run with root privileges, it then can't save the file, so it happens every time you start it.
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Thanks again for the good explanation!
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