Read the news 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

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:38:04PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote:

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

klibc upgrade requires user intervention: http://archlinux.org/news/411/