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igndenok

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From: Sidoarjo, Indonesia

Registered: 2010-06-07

Posts: 160

Upgrade kernel26-firmware to linux-firmware report with some problem

Just now I upgrade my system from kernel26-firmware to linux-firmware, in X (Awesome WM).
After press Y and pacman start downloading, I'm afk for a while (take a bath), when I'm come back
My system freeze and proses show that system still make mkinitcpio for fallback.

I hard reset, and boot. Boot failed in 10 seconds message because it can't detect my filesystem.
Follow suggestion that I need add some parameters I can boot.
Then I check with pacman -Syu, and you can guess there's still db.lck. Then I remove it, and invoke pacman -Syu again, pacman failed because there's already file from linux-firmware on disk.
I try to downgrade, but failed with the same reason. Then I remove all folder and file that conflict, and install kernel26-firmware then upgrade to linux-firmware, now I have linux-firmware on my system.

Learn a lot from that problem, any thought guys ?! Maybe some of you have a better way to solve something like that ?!

regards,
igndenok

Edit:
After I read pacman man, there's a force option (-f). Can I used that just in case (maybe) I have the same problem again ?

Last edited by igndenok (2010-06-21 15:11:27)

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Re: Upgrade kernel26-firmware to linux-firmware report with some problem

All I can say is that when the linux-firmware package got into [testing], I switched without problems on my laptop. I 'migrated' to the linux-firmware package on my server a few hours ago and it went smoothly too. I don't really think your problem has anything to do with the firmware package, since that doesn't trigger an initcpio rebuild, nor are there any file conflicts between both firmware packages.

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Re: Upgrade kernel26-firmware to linux-firmware report with some problem

Basically, if the system hangs while updating (and this has nothing to do with the update, most likely overheating on your machine or some faultiness on your HD), you have to manually override the files from the package(s) which was halfway updating at the point.

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