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thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Problem when upgrading xorg-server

After doing Pacman -Syu I got this error message today:
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in filesystem
xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

It seems there is a problem with the new version of xorg-server. Has it something to do with the fact that I'm using the nvidia driver?
What am I now supposed to do? (I wouldn't like to uninstall nvidia and then then reinstalling it )

mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 788

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Re: Problem when upgrading xorg-server

http://www.archlinux.org/news/436/

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Problem when upgrading xorg-server

This is one of the rare circumstances where a force install should be done.

1) Update your databases (done already): pacman -Sy
2) Force install xorg-server (and only this one!): pacman -Sf xorg-server
3) Update the remaining system changes as usual: pacman -Su

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Problem when upgrading xorg-server

Not really. I never force.
Instead i do pacman -Rd xorg-server
pacman -Syu
pacman -S xorg-server
And figure out the rest later.

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signor_rossi

Member

Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 257

Re: Problem when upgrading xorg-server

I forced the upgrade after I checked with 'pacman -Qo offending-package' and no package was shown as owner of these two files. Hopefully it will work after a restart.

EDIT:
CRAP. I only realized AMD has dropped support for my card after I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6 and catalyst-9.4.
Fortunately I still had the old xorg packages in cache. Since the radeon driver doesn't support powerplay this means I will have to stop at catalyst-9.3 and xorg-server-1.5. I wonder how this will work out with future kernel upgrades...

Last edited by signor_rossi (2009-04-12 20:22:48)

chazall1

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Registered: 2008-12-03

Posts: 4

Re: Problem when upgrading xorg-server

This worked great, thanks

1) Update your databases (done already): pacman -Sy
2) Force install xorg-server (and only this one!): pacman -Sf xorg-server
3) Update the remaining system changes as usual: pacman -Su