[arch-general] util-linux pacman error, file conflicts (safe to force?)

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Tom, All,
>
>   I ran into the following error regarding util-linux upgrade. I've looked
> in the forum and the website, but nothing specific to it. The error is:
>
> (72/72) checking for file conflicts
> [###########################################] 100%
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> util-linux: /bin/login exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /etc/pam.d/chfn exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /etc/pam.d/chsh exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /etc/pam.d/login exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/bin/chfn exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/bin/chsh exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/bin/newgrp exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/sbin/vigr exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/sbin/vipw exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/chfn.1.gz exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/chsh.1.gz exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/login.1.gz exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/newgrp.1.gz exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/share/man/man8/vigr.8.gz exists in filesystem
> util-linux: /usr/share/man/man8/vipw.8.gz exists in filesystem
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Upgrade shadow at the same time and it should solve the problem (or if
not, specify the upgrade order manually as Leonid suggested, though I
have not seen this beeing needed myself). Don't use --force.

Tom