I just managed to hit it on one of my arch boxes: (24/26) upgrading util-linux [########################################################################################] 100% rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/hwclock’: No such file or directory error: command failed to execute correctly Cody On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

On 12/07/12 08:11, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 @ 18:11:46 Author: tomegun Revision: 163378

upgpkg: util-linux 2.21.2-4

move adjtime from /var to /etc

This will allow some cleanup of initscripts, and is assumed by systemd

already.

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Added: util-linux/trunk/util-linux.install Modified: util-linux/trunk/PKGBUILD

--------------------+ PKGBUILD | 1 + util-linux.install | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

Modified: PKGBUILD =================================================================== --- PKGBUILD 2012-07-11 22:11:15 UTC (rev 163377) +++ PKGBUILD 2012-07-11 22:11:46 UTC (rev 163378) @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pam-login pam-common) backup=(etc/pam.d/chfn etc/pam.d/chsh etc/pam.d/login) +install=util-linux.install

build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

Added: util-linux.install =================================================================== --- util-linux.install (rev 0) +++ util-linux.install 2012-07-11 22:11:46 UTC (rev 163378) @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +post_upgrade() { + if [ "$(vercmp $2 2.21.2-4)" -lt 0 ]; then + if [ -f /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime ]; then + mv /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime /etc/adjtime + fi + rmdir /var/lib/hwclock

I have seen this not removed because it was not there in chroots. Not sure if it can happen on a real system... but if so, it needs an "if [[ -d ..."

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+ fi +}