rm /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm pacman -Su It's under the news section on the Arch homepage :) Zack On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Preston C. wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:09 AM, BinkyTheClown wrote:

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Please give us the exact error to know what package(s) are failing to install. Thank you for your help. I don't know how I could do that. I have my AL system up and running in another room, and am using this computer to communicate.

I downloaded the 06-08 installation cd, performed the installation, and then tried to update from there. That is when the problem happened. I can't even see all of the files that "already exists on filesystem" because there were so many that they went off the display.

The last file that already existed had a message like this,

klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor_64.h exists in filesystem

Actually, I just realized that all of the error messages begin with "klibc:", then it changes at the end of the error message to name a different file. So maybe it is just the klibc file?

I just noticed that too, I was going to link the news article. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM, BinkyTheClown wrote:

Btw, it seems the site is down =(

2009/2/11 Zack

rm /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm

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pacman -Su

It's under the news section on the Arch homepage :)

Zack

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Preston C. wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:09 AM, BinkyTheClown wrote:

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Please give us the exact error to know what package(s) are failing to install. Thank you for your help. I don't know how I could do that. I have my AL system up and running in another room, and am using this computer to communicate.

I downloaded the 06-08 installation cd, performed the installation, and then tried to update from there. That is when the problem happened. I can't even see all of the files that "already exists on filesystem" because there were so many that they went off the display.

The last file that already existed had a message like this,

klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor_64.h exists in filesystem

Actually, I just realized that all of the error messages begin with "klibc:", then it changes at the end of the error message to name a different file. So maybe it is just the klibc file?

It worked! Now hopefully the rest of the installation will go well. Thank you both again.

Dang.. I took too long to type this up, haha! Looks like you already solved it. Good job. :P On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Andrew Przepioski wrote:

Dang, archlinux.org is not loading for me. It must be down... because there is actually a sticky on this that has to do with klibc. Anyhow, the sticky pretty much said that you could delete all of those.. Of course, instead of deleting, I recommend moving it to another directory or renaming it. If pacman successfully works and everything is fully functional still such as being able to boot, then I would remove it.

Since youre new, I would recommend looking at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lpi-101-fundamentals-p1.xml to learn a bit more about rm, specifically with rm -fr and the wildcard (*) so you can do this task with ease.

Let us know how it goes. :)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Preston C. wrote:

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I am following the Beginner's Guide to try and get AL installed, and have come across a problem. I made it to the part about updating the system, before the installation of ALSA and X.

Here is the problem:

Two nights ago I ran pacman -Syu . For some reason it did not install properly, possibly because I did not have the network setup right at the time, because of an update to pacman. Nevertheless, I finally got around to trying again tonight, and the update this time was not 100+ MB it was 27 MB. I imagine this is because Arch Linux saved the updates downloaded the other night.

Now tonight, when I ran the command pacman -Syu, after downloading 27 MB of updates, pacman was in the process of installing them and then, at the very beginning, pretty much on every package downloaded, it said that the files "exists in filesystem".

Any help on fixing the exists in filesystem problem on pretty much every package, I think, would be very helpful.

Thanks, Preston

Thanks Andrew. Yes I have moved on to the next step, :-). On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Andrew Przepioski wrote:

Dang, archlinux.org is not loading for me. It must be down... because there is actually a sticky on this that has to do with klibc. Anyhow, the sticky pretty much said that you could delete all of those.. Of course, instead of deleting, I recommend moving it to another directory or renaming it. If pacman successfully works and everything is fully functional still such as being able to boot, then I would remove it.

Since youre new, I would recommend looking at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lpi-101-fundamentals-p1.xml to learn a bit more about rm, specifically with rm -fr and the wildcard (*) so you can do this task with ease.

Let us know how it goes. :)