[Solved] Upgrade fails because of net-tools

vinayv · 2011-06-21 02:29:02

It was almost a week since I last did a "pacman -Syu" on my system. Before that, I had read about depreciation of net-tools and have already modified my rc.conf to use the newer simple network setup. Everything was working fine. Even upgradation of the system (pacman -Syu) also worked fine last week.
I was out of town for a few days. So, when I came back on Sunday, I tried updating the system. Pacman found updates and downloaded them. But it failed when actually upgrading the packages. It gives the following error:

[vinay@arch ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
Password: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                     37.0K   44.9K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
 extra                   465.7K   39.1K/s 00:00:12 [######################] 100%
 community               441.9K  123.2K/s 00:00:04 [######################] 100%
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxfr              24.7K   74.6K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (10): gdk-pixbuf2-2.23.4-1  gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.5-2
              gtk2-2.24.5-2  libmodplug-0.8.8.3-1  libxml++-2.34.1-1
              libofx-0.9.4-1  net-tools-1.60-18  soprano-2.6.0-6
              strigi-0.7.5-2  xdg-utils-1.1.0rc1-3

Total Download Size:    7.85 MB
Total Installed Size:   47.46 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 gtk-update-icon-ca...    10.9K   22.1K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
 gtk2-2.24.5-2-x86_64      4.9M   60.9K/s 00:01:23 [######################] 100%
 libmodplug-0.8.8.3...   145.8K   53.5K/s 00:00:03 [######################] 100%
 libofx-0.9.4-1-x86_64   223.9K   60.2K/s 00:00:04 [######################] 100%
 soprano-2.6.0-6-x86_64    2.0M   68.2K/s 00:00:30 [######################] 100%
 strigi-0.7.5-2-x86_64   504.2K   75.7K/s 00:00:07 [######################] 100%
 xdg-utils-1.1.0rc1...    46.3K   46.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
(10/10) checking package integrity                 [######################] 100%
(10/10) checking for file conflicts                [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
net-tools: /bin/hostname exists in filesystem
net-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

As you can see it complains about /bin/hostname file existing in the filesystem and that causing problem for net-tools package. I'm not sure how or why this happened. The /bin/hostname is supposed to be available on the filesystem, right?

Since net-tools was depreciated in favour of netcfg, I tried removing net-tools. When I try that, it offers to remove netcfg package as well!

[vinay@arch ~]$ sudo pacman -Rcsu net-tools 
Password: 
checking dependencies...

Remove (2): netcfg-2.5.5-1  net-tools-1.60-16

Total Removed Size:   0.61 MB

Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] n

What I did was to upgrade each package manually (excluding net-tools package). But this is cumbersome and tedious. I did a search on the forum and on internet and did not find other people with the same problem. So, is something wrong/corrupt on my arch installation?
If so, how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Vinay V

Last edited by vinayv (2011-06-22 01:31:49)

Inxsible · 2011-06-21 03:24:21

Read stickies: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

vinayv · 2011-06-21 08:47:31

Thanks for the reply. I should have searched for a generic "exists in filesystem" rather than net-tools error specific "/bin/hostname exists in filesystem". I thought this was because of the recent move to netcfg from net-tools. Maybe I'm mistaken.

Anyway, thanks for pointing out that stikie to me. Let me try the suggestions in that post

vinayv · 2011-06-22 01:31:14

I ran "pacman -Qo <file>" for both the files (/bin/hostname and /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz). It said no package owned both the files! I'm not sure why the error came up in that case..

Anyway, I ran "pacman -Sf net-tools" and the system seems fine now.

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#1 2011-06-21 02:29:02

[Solved] Upgrade fails because of net-tools

#2 2011-06-21 03:24:21

Re: [Solved] Upgrade fails because of net-tools

#3 2011-06-21 08:47:31

Re: [Solved] Upgrade fails because of net-tools

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Re: [Solved] Upgrade fails because of net-tools

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