[arch-general] pacman -Syu

[Tavian Barnes]

On 10 April 2010 20:13, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
>> What do I need to do in order to update this system ?
>>
>> ...
>> checking package integrity...
>> (196/196) checking for file conflicts               [#################################################################] 100%
>> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
>> pm-utils: /etc/pm/ exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pm-utils.pc exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/on_ac_power.1.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/pm-is-supported.1.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man8/pm-action.8.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man8/pm-hibernate.8.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man8/pm-pmu.8.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man8/pm-powersave.8.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man8/pm-suspend-hybrid.8.gz exists in filesystem
>> pm-utils: /usr/share/man/man8/pm-suspend.8.gz exists in filesystem
>> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>
> Do a `pacman -Qo /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pm-utils.pc' to see which package
> those files belong to.
>

Those files probably don't belong to a package if pacman is saying
that, but they should belong to pm-utils.  pacman -Sf pm-utils
followed by pacman -Su should fix it.

-- 
Tavian Barnes