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lamdacore

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sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

I am not sure when this happened. But today morning I ran yaourt -Syu.
Tried to install the updates and I get this :

(29/29) checking for file conflicts                 [#####################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
sysfsutils: /lib/libsysfs.so.2 exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /lib/libsysfs.so.2.0.1 exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/bin/dlist_test exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/bin/get_device exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/bin/get_driver exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/bin/get_module exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/bin/systool exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/include/sysfs/dlist.h exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/include/sysfs/libsysfs.h exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/lib/libsysfs.a exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/lib/libsysfs.so exists in filesystem
sysfsutils: /usr/share/man/man1/systool.1.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
sysfsutils-2.1.0-5: description file is missing
sysfsutils-2.1.0-5: dependency file is missing
sysfsutils-2.1.0-5: file list is missing

Turns out I am getting the following after any type of install/uninstall procedure with yaourt. But I don't see these if I use pacman.

 
sysfsutils-2.1.0-5: description file is missing
sysfsutils-2.1.0-5: dependency file is missing
sysfsutils-2.1.0-5: file list is missing

Thought?

Regards

Last edited by lamdacore (2010-02-14 23:29:43)

loafer

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

Personally I wouldn't use yaourt for anything.  I have started managing aur packages with bauerbill.

Last edited by loafer (2010-02-14 20:25:38)

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lamdacore

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

Was not trying to install anything off the aur in this case. Just noticed the extra error messages while using yaourt.

loafer

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

That's what I meant when I said "Personally I wouldn't use yaourt for anything".  If the error only occurs with  yaourt and not with pacman and there are no other problems, then it would seem it is a problem with  yaourt.

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

It appears part of your pacman db has been lost. This should be fixed using:
pacman -Sf sysfsutils

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lamdacore

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

Hey thanks for the reply. I tried doing that and got the following :

sudo pacman -Sf sysfsutils
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): sysfsutils-2.1.0-5  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   0.20 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
error: could not create directory /var/lib/pacman/local/sysfsutils-2.1.0-5/: File exists

would I need to remove the directory for pacman to continue?

loafer

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

You can remove it and then "sudo pacman -Syy" and then proceed.  The interesting thing is that yaourt initially spotted the issue and pacman didn't.  I wonder why?

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lamdacore

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Re: sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 [SOLVED]

Thanks a lot. Deleted the file. Then

sudo pacman -Sf sysfsutils

Followed by update as usual with

pacman -Syu

regards