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binskipy2u

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Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 212

Kernel Upgrade issue, NEVER seen this before..

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
kernel26-2.6.34.2-1-x86_64       22.8M  964.0K/s 00:00:24 [###############################] 100%
kernel26-headers-2.6.34.2-...     3.7M  559.1K/s 00:00:07 [###############################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                          [###############################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.34-ARCH/modules.devname exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.34-ARCH/modules.softdep exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

anyone have this issue? I've never in over a year of using Arch had this errror before.. since nothing was upgraded as the message says, nothing is "broken" by the upgrade..
any ideas on what I have to do so this upgrade actually works? Since I am clueless on this type of problem..
thanks

(((( Dont know how I accidently posted this twice))))

how do you "DELETE" a post? or is that a mods' duty/action?

Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-08-03 12:47:29)

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Nvveen

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Registered: 2010-06-14

Posts: 11

Re: Kernel Upgrade issue, NEVER seen this before..

I'm having this problem too, not going to delete anything, since I recently deleted half my pc because of a stupid mistake, and I don't want to go through the whole troubleshooting phase again so soon Hurray for Arch though, that I got it back up and running so quickly. I'll just subscribe to this thread until there's a solution >.<

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Kernel Upgrade issue, NEVER seen this before..

Well there is a solution and its documented in the arch dev list as well as a couple of threads in the forum.

Although using the -f switch is not recommended, in this case it is the only solution and perfectly fine to use it.

sudo pacman -Syuf

And here are the threads that I mentioned:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102198

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102196

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 17485.html

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-08-03 15:36:16)

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Re: Kernel Upgrade issue, NEVER seen this before..

Closing because of the double post (see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102198).

Users cannot delete their own topics or posts.

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