General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@archlinux.org

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:41:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:

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pacman -Su

Not OK:

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[root@shack n7dr]# pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): glibc-2.16.0-2

Total Installed Size: 33.94 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.83 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (1/1) checking package integrity [##########################################################################################] 100% (1/1) loading package files [##########################################################################################] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) glibc: /lib exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [root@shack n7dr]#

After much investigation the only workaround for this problem I could discover and I have used on my three computers this week is:

system reboot : updates system with new packages. This : step is critical or you could end up with : a borked system

# pacman -Sfu : This forces the loading of glibc-2.16.0-2 : but errors out because /lib directory exists ignore errors : on the system.

# /usr/lib/ld-2.16.0.so /bin/rm -r /lib

# /usr/lib/ld-2.16.0.so /bin/ln -s /usr/lib /lib

system reboot

DANGER: If the above procedure is not followed exactly you can bork your system and it will need a complete rebuild. An other workaround is:

# system reboot

# pacman -Sfu

Ignore errors use a live CD/USB and boot Linux. # mkdir /archroot

# mount /dev/xxxx /archroot : where xxxx is the root partition

# cd /archroot

/archroot]# rm -r lib

/archroot]# ln -s usr/lib ./lib

system reboot

HTH

John

PS: I have not read the complete thread so I do not know if someone else has already offered these solutions. JEB