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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

[solved] Package broken after out of space

pacman -Syu failed while installing linux-firmware package, because FS run out of space. Transaction was aborted.

I freed some space, pacman -Syu worked well. I removed linux-firmware (pacman -Rs linux-firmware), it worked without any issues.

Now I can't install it back:

pacman -Sy linux-firmware
[...] # lots of those:
linux-firmware: /usr/lib/firmware/vpu_d.bin.zst exists in filesystem
linux-firmware: /usr/lib/firmware/vpu_p.bin.zst exists in filesystem
linux-firmware: /usr/lib/firmware/vxge/X3fw-pxe.ncf.zst exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

What can I do now? --overwrite "/usr/lib/firmware/*", or remove the listed files in conflict with a script?

Last edited by dext (2023-12-16 19:10:28)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,587

Re: [solved] Package broken after out of space

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … )%22_error

Don't use -Sy, either -S or -Syu when installing a package.

dext

Member

From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

Re: [solved] Package broken after out of space

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … )%22_error

Don't use -Sy, either -S or -Syu when installing a package.

You're right, my mistake, but I did it within 5 minutes from full Syu, so this is not the reason.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,297

Re: [solved] Package broken after out of space

This is what --overwrite is for, yes.

dext

Member

From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

Re: [solved] Package broken after out of space

solved:

pacman -Syu linux-firmware --overwrite "/usr/lib/firmware/*"

Thanks for the confirmation, I'm always afraid in this situations that I'll blow up my system.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,498

Re: [solved] Package broken after out of space

Overall integrity check:

sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files'

And please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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