On Saturday 15 November 2008 14:38:04 Niels Rasmussen wrote:

> Hi all

>

> I've just installed Arch linux again after 9 month with Ubuntu and several

> other distros (yeah, they all come back! :-))

>

> I've followed "The Beginners Guide" and did everything as described.

>

> Anyway, I've got the system up and running, and now writing in X (openbox)

> from opera Mail.

>

> I've tried to install the nvidia-71xx driver because I know it supports my

> VideoCard Geforce 6600GT.

>

> But apparently it doesn't work, so I uninstalled it, reinstalled libgl,

> did a depmod -a and rebooted.

>

> Now in X I can install programs just fine with pacman but pacman -Syu

> results in some strange errors I havn't seen before.

>

> Here goes:

> bash-3.2# pacman -Syu

>

> :: Synchronizing package databases...

>

> core is up to date

> extra 412,9K 1535,6K/s 00:00:00

> [########################################################] 100%

> community is up to date

>

> :: Starting full system upgrade...

>

> resolving dependencies...

> looking for inter-conflicts...

>

> Targets (59): bash-3.2.039-3 texinfo-4.13a-1 m4-1.4.12-1

> autoconf-2.63-1 binutils-2.18-9 bzip2-1.0.5-3

> openssl-0.9.8i-1 run-parts-2.30-1

> ca-certificates-20080809-4 cracklib-2.8.13-1

> e2fsprogs-1.41.3-2 popt-1.14-1 cryptsetup-1.0.6-2

> dhcpcd-4.0.3-1 dialog-1.1_20080819-1

> ed-1.1-2 filesystem-2008.07-1 fakeroot-1.10.1-1

> file-4.26-1 flex-2.5.35-1 gmp-4.2.4-1.1

> mpfr-2.3.2-2 gcc-4.3.2-1 gettext-0.17-2 grub-0.97-13

> hdparm-8.9-1 hwdetect-0.9.1-2

> util-linux-ng-2.14-1 udev-130-1 initscripts-2008.09-2

> iputils-20071127-2 jfsutils-1.1.13-1

> klibc-1.5.14-1 klibc-extras-2.5-1

> klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-7 klibc-module-init-tools-3.4-2

> klibc-udev-130-1 libtool-2.2.6a-1 logrotate-3.7.7-3

> man-pages-3.11-1 mdadm-2.6.7-1

> mlocate-0.21-1 module-init-tools-3.4-1 nano-2.0.9-1

> pam-1.0.2-2 pciutils-3.0.2-1

> pcmciautils-015-2 perl-5.10.0-4 procinfo-19-3

> procps-3.2.7-5 psmisc-22.6-2 rp-pppoe-3.10-1

> sdparm-1.03-1 shadow-4.1.2.1-2 tzdata-2008h-1

> vi-7.2.25-1 wget-1.11.4-1 which-2.20-1

> xfsprogs-2.10.1-1

>

> Total Download Size: 0,00 MB

> Total Installed Size: 250,03 MB

>

> Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

> checking package integrity...

> (59/59) checking for file conflicts

> [########################################################] 100%

> error: could not prepare transaction

> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

> klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/Kbuild exists in filesystem

> klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out.h exists in filesystem

> klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/acpi.h exists in filesystem

> klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/agp.h exists in filesystem

> klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative-asm.h exists in filesystem

> klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative.h exists in filesystem

>

> === SNIP ===

>

> Anyone knows what this is about ??

>

> It is the first time I have experienced problems in Arch Linux.

>

> --

> /Niels

> Registered Linux User #133791

> Get counted at http://counter.li.org

Hi Niels

You will find help about klibc here

klibc upgrade requires user intervention