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krazybastid

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 67

Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

For some reason or another the latest realeased Iso after (Don't Panic)  the one that came out recently 2008.04 in May I cannot set up my floppy even though I identitfied it right and catalyst won't install I did pacman -Syu to install the files it required but it wouldn't complete the transaction due to some conflicting files. I'll show you what I mean.

This is my floppy line in fstab that was right on in the Don't Panic release:

/dev/fd0   /media/floppy    vfat          defaults,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

This is what happens under new realease

[krazybastid@krazy89709874976 ~]$ mount /media/floppy
mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
[krazybastid@krazy89709874976 ~]$

So I try to install catalyst:

[krazybastid@krazy89709874976 ~]$ sudo pacman -S catalyst
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: catalyst-utils conflicts with libgl. Remove libgl? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: atl2: requires kernel26<2.6.25
:: ipw3945: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: madwifi: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: rt2500: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: tiacx: requires kernel26<2.6.25
:: wlan-ng26: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
[krazybastid@krazy89709874976 ~]$

So I try pacman -Syu

[krazybastid@krazy89709874976 ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: rsync-3.0.2-1  abs-2.1-1  pam-1.0.1-1  coreutils-6.11-1
         mkinitcpio-0.5.19-1  kernel26-2.6.25.4-1  atl2-2.0.4-3  m4-1.4.11-1
         autoconf-2.62-1  bzip2-1.0.5-2  dialog-1.1_20080316-3  file-4.24-1
         gpm-1.20.3-1  initscripts-2008.05-1  ipw3945-1.2.2-10
         run-parts-2.28.6-2  ca-certificates-20080514-3  openssl-0.9.8h-3
         libldap-2.3.40-1  libtool-2.2.4-1  licenses-2.4-1  links-2.1pre36-1
         lvm2-2.02.36-1  madwifi-0.9.4.3382-5  ndiswrapper-1.52-4
         openssh-5.0p1-1  pango-1.20.3-1  patch-2.5.9-1  pcre-7.7-1
         pkgconfig-0.23-1  rt2500-1.1.0_B4-23  syslog-ng-2.0.9-1  tar-1.20-2
         texinfo-4.12-2  tiacx-20080210-5  wget-1.11.2-1  wlan-ng26-0.2.8-17

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   115.06 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(37/37) checking for file conflicts                 [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[krazybastid@krazy89709874976 ~]$   

Well I'm stuck is there a way out of this cause I can't even use the (Don't Panic) CD now without running into more update problems.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

For gpm, look here:  http://www.archlinux.org/news/391/.

krazybastid

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 67

Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

I forgot about the force option that solved it  with catalyst, I'm sure the floppy issue will be fixed in next iso release.

sirocco

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Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 149

Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39924
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44050
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krazybastid

Member

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 67

Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

Well the floppy thing is not happening does anybody know why it's not?

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

There's a new version of the installer - 2008.06.  Try with that.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

did you try to modpobe the floppy module?

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: Catalyst won't install also floppy not mounted with 2008.04 new ISOs

Greetings. While trying to upgrade I got the following error

$sudo pacman -Syuf
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ipw3945: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0

pl help.

Note: with lspci | grep Wireless I noted that my  wireless is intel PRO 2200 chip set. and in the modules ipw2200 was there for loading. I could not figure out why ipw3945 hinters the upgrade problem. I removed ipw3945  with sudo pacman --remove ipw3945 and removed the ignorepkg in rc.conf. made a try with pacman -Syu for a system upgrade operation. 

After a completion of about 360 MB of updates down load it failed to update the system. It is late night. I decided to give a try with yaourt. This time with yaourt -Syf sytem got updated.

Last edited by kgas (2008-11-11 23:21:59)