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bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Can't upgrade due to catalyst

Hi All,

Having trouble upgrading because of catalyst .. I get the following error:
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pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
catalyst is up to date
core is up to date
extra                            472.6K   42.8K/s 00:00:11 [################################] 100%
community                        389.7K   46.8K/s 00:00:08 [################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace gir-repository with extra/gobject-introspection? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libdjvu with extra/djvulibre? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
warning: provider package was selected (xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix provides xorg-server)
warning: provider package was selected (phonon-gstreamer provides phonon-backend)
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix will be installed before its catalyst-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: xf86-input-evdev and xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix are in conflict (xorg-server<1.9.0)

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If I ignore the package xf86-input-evdev (and several others ..) I can get past that, and upgrade i.e

pacman -Su --ignore xf86-input-evdev --ignore xf86-input-keyboard --ignore xf86-input-mouse --ignore xf86-video-vesa

But is this the right thing to do? Do I need to upgrade catalyst?

Cheers,
Bernie

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Can't upgrade due to catalyst

Ok, after doing the above, I started the upgrade, all the files were fetched, then checked for conflicts,at this point I get the following error:

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(345/345) checking for file conflicts                        [################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/include/dbusmenu-qt/dbusmenu_export.h exists in filesystem
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/include/dbusmenu-qt/dbusmenu_version.h exists in filesystem
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/include/dbusmenu-qt/dbusmenuexporter.h exists in filesystem
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/include/dbusmenu-qt/dbusmenuimporter.h exists in filesystem
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/lib/libdbusmenu-qt.so exists in filesystem
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/lib/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 exists in filesystem
libdbusmenu-qt: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/dbusmenu-qt.pc exists in filesystem
kdebase-runtime: /usr/share/icons/default.kde4 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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I tried installing libdbusmenu-qt by itself with the same error ..

Is there a way to clean out those files nicely, or do I have to do it manually?
Or is there a way to force the upgrade?

Thanks,
Bernie

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Can't upgrade due to catalyst

Anyone? I don't want to delete those files if there is a better way ..

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Can't upgrade due to catalyst

Since there is no response here, I have removed the files and continued the installation successfully ..

However, on reboot X is not coming up, so to see if I still have a conflict between xorg and catalyst, I tried a re-install of xorg,

this is what I got when I tried that:
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error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction etc
:: xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix and xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix are in conflict (xorg-server)
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However, if I try to undelete any of these, I get a "no found" error from pacman ..

What is going on here, I am typing this from another compute as X is notb running on that machine ..

Please someone help...

Cheers,
Bernie

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Can't upgrade due to catalyst

What shows up if you run "pacman -Qqs | grep xorg-server"?

Also have you tried reinstalling "xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix"?

bmentink

Member

From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Can't upgrade due to catalyst

Thanks, but that didn't help.

I did find the answer though, I grabbed the latest catalyst 10.10 (which supports xorg-server 1.9 and that managed to get rid of the old catalyst and catalyst-utils which would only
work on xorg-server 1.8

So I am happy now .. my laptop is back up and ruinning.

The only thing that bothers me now, is that the fonts look a bit thin .... not sure what is up there

Cheers,
Bernie