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Birdman

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Upgrading filesystem errors

I have been following recent threads where others have had a few problems with upgrading. I have therefore taken the approach of upgrading packages that might cause a problem individually before entering into a full -Syu. I have successfully upgraded Pacman and the current kernel. In trying to upgrade the filesystem package I get the following errors:

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit to transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /etc/protocols exists in filesystem
filesystem: /etc/services exists in filesystem
errors occurred, no packages were upgraded

What should I do to upgrade the filesystem?

Thanks

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Upgrading filesystem errors

What package claims those two files currently? (pacman -Qo /etc/services) You probably should upgrade that one first instead.

Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: Upgrading filesystem errors

Many thanks ataraxia, that did the job. It was the iputils package that needed updating first.