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whot

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Registered: 2005-03-13

Posts: 18

pacman -Syu fails due to mime.types[SOLVED]

Hi All,

pacman -Syu results in:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mime-types: /etc/mime.types exists in filesystem

Is it safe to mv mime.types and retry the system upgrade?

I have Gnome and KDE installed.  I currently use KDE and this is "the" KED4.1 upgrade.

Thanks.

Last edited by whot (2008-08-19 01:03:49)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: pacman -Syu fails due to mime.types[SOLVED]

You can see if some package owns that file by doing "pacman -Qo /etc/mime.types".  If it's not owned by any package you should be able to safely force the upgrade by adding -f switch to the -Syu command (pacman -Syuf).  If another package does own this file you should probably file a bug report here and let the developers know that there are two different Arch packages which provide the same file -- that shouldn't happen.  It should be safe to force the upgrade in either case, but it's best to know what's causing the problem in the first place.

whot

Member

Registered: 2005-03-13

Posts: 18

Re: pacman -Syu fails due to mime.types[SOLVED]

pacman -Qo /etc/mime.types, showed no owner for the file.

Performed:
pacman -Rn mime-types
pacman -S mime-types
pacman -Syu

System upgrade finished with no further problems.  Machine booted to KDE4.1 

I've noticed a few things with KDE4.1:

DUUUUDE, where's my data?!!? (calendar data, pim data, etc.)

It seems a bit slow to respond.  I don't know if this is a kernel26 upgrade issue or it's the first time
applications are being used so "things" are being set-up/configured for the first time.

All in all, smooth upgrade to KDE4.1.  Thank you, devs.

Thanks for your help, fwojciec.