Help!! Pacman giving errors while upgrading arch.

archlinuxuser2008 · 2008-12-12 03:35:29

Hi,
I am a new convert to Arch Linux even though I have been using LInux for many years. Earlier I used Red Hat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu in that order. Since this is my first post let me thank the developers of arch linux for creating such a blazingly fast distribution. I love running arch linux.

Now to the main issue I am facing. Today I did a full upgrade of arch on my machine by running the command :

# pacman -Syu

And after around 260 MB download, it refused to upgrade the system citing some errors. I have included the output of pacman here for your viewing. Also I have "Scribes" text editor installed on my machine which is now broken - though I am not sure if it is related to the upgradation or not. Please let me know what is the solution to this nagging problem.

:: 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 (158): alsa-lib-1.0.18-1  ncurses-5.7-2  dialog-1.1_20080819-1  
               pciutils-3.0.3-1  alsa-utils-1.0.18-1  bash-3.2.039-3  
               texinfo-4.13a-1  m4-1.4.12-1  autoconf-2.63-1  perl-5.10.0-4  
               automake-1.10.2-1  expat-2.0.1-2  dbus-core-1.2.4-1  
               dbus-1.2.4-1  glib2-2.18.3-1  libdaemon-0.13-1  avahi-0.6.23-2  
               binutils-2.18-9  bzip2-1.0.5-3  openssl-0.9.8i-2  
               run-parts-2.30-1  ca-certificates-20080809-4  libpng-1.2.33-1  
               xcb-util-0.3.1-1  cairo-1.8.4-1  cracklib-2.8.13-1  
               device-mapper-1.02.29-1  e2fsprogs-1.41.3-2  libgcrypt-1.4.3-2  
               popt-1.14-1  cryptsetup-1.0.6-2  curl-7.19.2-1  python-2.6.1-1  
               dbus-python-0.83.0-2  pycairo-1.6.4-2  pygobject-2.15.4-2  
               python-numeric-24.2-3  pygtk-2.13.0-2  pyxdg-0.15-3  
               setuptools-0.6c9-2  deluge-1.0.6-2  dhcpcd-4.0.4-1  
               dmidecode-2.10-1  ed-1.1-2  filesystem-2008.07-1  
               fakeroot-1.10.1-1  file-4.26-1  gnutls-2.4.2-1  libxi-1.1.4-1  
               pango-1.22.3-2  gtk2-2.14.5-1  hunspell-1.2.8-1  nspr-4.7.3-1  
               sqlite3-3.6.6.2-1  nss-3.12.1-1  xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1  
               firefox-3.0.4-1  flex-2.5.35-1  gc-7.1-1  gmp-4.2.4-1.1  
               mpfr-2.3.2-2  gcc-4.3.2-1  gettext-0.17-2  libxmu-1.0.4-2  
               gimp-2.6.3-1  gnome-desktop-2.24.2-1  gnome-menus-2.24.2-1  
               pyorbit-2.24.0-2  gnome-python-2.22.3-3  
               gnome-python-desktop-2.24.0-2  gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-3  
               gpm-1.20.5-2  grub-0.97-14  libxml2-2.6.32-5  
               gstreamer0.10-0.10.21-2  gstreamer0.10-bad-0.10.9-1  
               gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-0.10.6-1  gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.10-1  
               gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins-0.10.10-1  
               gtk2-themes-collection-0.2.0-2  hal-info-0.20081022-1  
               hdparm-8.9-1  wget-1.11.4-1  hwd-5.4-1  hwdetect-0.9.1-2  
               libjpeg-6b-6  imlib2-1.4.2-2  util-linux-ng-2.14-1  udev-130-1  
               initscripts-2008.09-2  iputils-20071127-2  jfsutils-1.1.13-1  
               module-init-tools-3.4-1  kernel26-2.6.27.7-1  klibc-1.5.14-1  
               klibc-extras-2.5-1  klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-7  
               klibc-module-init-tools-3.4-2  klibc-udev-130-1  ladspa-1.13-2  
               lesstif-0.95.0-3  libdrm-2.3.1-2  libgl-7.2-1  
               libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-2  libnotify-0.4.5-1  libtheora-1.0-1  
               libtool-2.2.6a-1  libv4l-0.5.7-1  libx86-1.1-1  libxaw-1.0.5-1  
               links-2.2-2  logrotate-3.7.7-3  lvm2-2.02.43-1  
               man-pages-3.14-1  mdadm-2.6.7-1  mesa-7.2-1  mlocate-0.21-1  
               nano-2.0.9-1  ntfs-3g-1.5130-1  p7zip-4.61-1  pam-1.0.2-2  
               pcmciautils-015-2  procps-3.2.7-5  vbetool-1.1-1  
               pm-utils-1.2.3-3  policykit-0.9-7  procinfo-19-3  psmisc-22.6-2  
               qt-4.4.3-3  rp-pppoe-3.10-1  sdparm-1.03-1  shadow-4.1.2.1-2  
               tdb-3.2.5-1  smbclient-3.2.5-1  sudo-1.6.9p18-1  t1lib-5.1.2-2  
               tzdata-2008i-1  unrar-3.8.5-1  vi-7.2.25-1  vlc-0.9.8a-1  
               vte-0.17.4-2  which-2.20-1  wpa_supplicant-0.5.11-1  
               xarchiver-0.5.2-1  xcb-proto-1.2-2  xf86-video-vesa-2.0.0-2  
               xfsprogs-2.10.1-1  xorg-xkb-utils-7.4-1  xkeyboard-config-1.4-1  
               xorg-apps-7.4-1  xorg-server-utils-7.4-2  xorg-utils-7.4-2  
               libpciaccess-0.10.5-1  xf86-input-evdev-2.0.7-1  
               xorg-server-1.5.3-3  xproto-7.0.14-1  xterm-237-1  
               xvidcore-1.2.1-1  

Total Download Size:  260.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   855.95 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
checking package integrity...
( 19/158) checking for file conflicts               [##-------------------]  12%
( 34/158) checking for file conflicts               [####-----------------]  21%
( 57/158) checking for file conflicts               [#######--------------]  36%
( 87/158) checking for file conflicts               [############---------]  55%
( 96/158) checking for file conflicts               [#############--------]  60%
(158/158) checking for file conflicts               [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/Kbuild exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/acpi.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/agp.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative-asm.h exists in filesystem
.... 
// Excess lines removed for brevity
....
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/voyager.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/vsyscall.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xen/interface.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor_64.h exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

mentallaxative · 2008-12-12 03:41:34

The solution is to read the news:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/

archlinuxuser2008 · 2008-12-12 05:03:40

The solution is to read the news:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/

Thanks for the link. I will do as it suggests and see if it works.

archlinuxuser2008 · 2008-12-12 05:35:49

mentallaxative wrote:

The solution is to read the news:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/

Thanks for this prompt help. The upgrade worked like a charm.

papabean · 2008-12-18 11:42:31

Thank you. I got sick of having ubuntu on this hand-me-down laptop and decided to install Arch as it works so well on my desktop.

Got to the first system upgrade and ran into this error.

Thanks so much for posting the link to the news. The solution given there solved the issue for me.

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#1 2008-12-12 03:35:29

Help!! Pacman giving errors while upgrading arch.

#2 2008-12-12 03:41:34

Re: Help!! Pacman giving errors while upgrading arch.

#3 2008-12-12 05:03:40

Re: Help!! Pacman giving errors while upgrading arch.

#4 2008-12-12 05:35:49

Re: Help!! Pacman giving errors while upgrading arch.

#5 2008-12-18 11:42:31

Re: Help!! Pacman giving errors while upgrading arch.

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