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taskara

Member

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 18

new to arch - pacman -Syu error *fixed

Hi,

I just built a Arch 0.6 system on my laptop.

After it was all booting happily, I updated the package list, then decided to update the system.

It updated pacman first, which went well.

Then I had to run the command again, and this time it downloaded a whole bunch of updates, but failed when it did a conflict check.

Could anyone assist? Here is the error:

[root@moses root]# pacman -Su
 
Targets: automake-1.8.5-1 bash-2.05b-12 bin86-0.16.16-1 binutils-2.15-1
         shadow-4.0.4.1-3 coreutils-5.2.1-2 dcron-2.9-2 device-mapper-1.00.17-1
         dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-3 file-4.09-1 flex-2.5.31-2 gcc-3.4.0-1 gdbm-1.8.3-2
         gettext-0.14.1-2 groff-1.19.1-2 grub-0.95-1 hotplug-2004_04_01-1
         initscripts-0.6-9 iputils-021109-2 kernel26-2.6.7-1 libtool-1.5.6-1
         lilo-22.5.9-1 lvm2-2.00.15-2 m4-1.4.1-1 man-pages-1.67-1
         module-init-tools-0.9.14-4 nano-1.2.3-1 net-tools-1.60-8 pam-0.77-6
         perl-5.8.4-1 procps-3.2.1-1 reiserfsprogs-3.6.17-1 sed-4.1-1
         sysklogd-1.4.1-9 tar-1.14-1 tcp_wrappers-7.6-4 util-linux-2.12-3
         vim-6.3-2

 
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
 
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  /bin/su: exists in filesystem
  /etc/pam.d/su: exists in filesystem
  /usr/man/man1/su.1.gz: exists in filesystem
 
 
[root@moses root]#

I shall update them one by one and see which package is causing it..

Still I prob won't know how to fix it when I find it!

cheers!

-chris

taskara

Member

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 18

Re: new to arch - pacman -Syu error *fixed

hmm yep it seems the problems is coreutils.. any idea how to fix?

remove pam?

ta!

taskara

Member

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 18

Re: new to arch - pacman -Syu error *fixed

never mind..

once I knew what was causing the problem, I could find the answer 

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=5466

and the front page

http://www.archlinux.org/news.php

thanks!