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Stephen Cent

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Registered: 2025-06-22

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

This morning when I try to upgrade my system with

pacman -Syyu

and error occurred like this

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Then I tried to figure this out with --overwrite option mentioned here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … )%22_error
But I couldn't fully understand the usage in man page, that I run both this

sudo pacman -S --overwrite /usr/lib/firmware/ad103,/usr/lib/firmware/ad104,/usr/lib/firmware/ad106,/usr/lib/firmware/ad107 linux-firmware

and this

sudo pacman -S --overwrite ad103,ad104,ad106,ad107 linux-firmware

And neither of them did the trick.
I'm pretty confused now, could anyone kindly help me?

Last edited by Stephen Cent (2025-06-22 02:25:53)

chenus

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Registered: 2024-03-07

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

same problem

faetter

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Registered: 2019-09-21

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

Hi Stephen - you probably want to read this announcement and run the relevant commands:

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/

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Stephen Cent

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Registered: 2025-06-22

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

Hi Stephen - you probably want to read this announcement and run the relevant commands:

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/

Oh, thank you so much!
Guess I'll pay more attention to news now lol

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 475

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/

read the news

faetter

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Registered: 2019-09-21

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

Hi Stephen - you probably want to read this announcement and run the relevant commands:

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/

Oh, thank you so much!
Guess I'll pay more attention to news now lol

Yeah, that may help You can subscribe to the distribution list to get an email every time there's a new update: https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/li … linux.org/

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None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Stephen Cent

Member

Registered: 2025-06-22

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

Hi Stephen - you probably want to read this announcement and run the relevant commands:

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/

Oh, thank you so much!
Guess I'll pay more attention to news now lol

Yeah, that may help You can subscribe to the distribution list to get an email every time there's a new update: https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/li … linux.org/

absolutely will