Hi, Oliver Temlin: Thank you, it seems my system is working now! Thank you very much!!! ________________________________________ From: arch-general <arch-general-bounces@archlinux.org> on behalf of Temlin Olivér <temlin@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:27 AM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem On Mar 10, 2014 4:18 PM, "Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)" <rcrg4@mail.missouri.edu> wrote:
Hi, I use this system for almost one year, and don't update the system.
I have tried mount /dev/sda3 as the root directory. And I try one thing before chroot:
#mkdir /mnt/bin #cp /bin/* /mnt/bin #arch-chroot /mnt
Now I can go to the chroot jail. And surprised to me, I run the following command, and I don't see any fails: #mv /bin/* /usr/bin/ #rmdir /bin #pacman -Syu mkinitcpio systemd linux .....
Now I am going to reboot my system, hopefully, it's going to work. Thanks.
Renzhi Cao
Email : rcrg4@mail.missouri.edu
Hello, If that should work, then try upgrading filesystem asap, and expect many '/usr/bin/file already exists in filesystem' errors on subsequent updates. Make sure, that they are unowned according to pacman (pacman -Qo /path/to/file), and remove them before continuing. Also make sure to never reboot between removing the files and upgrading these packages. --Oliver Temlin