[arch-general] update problem maybe ..

[mike cloaked]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:04 PM, P .NIKOLIC <p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just done a "pacman -Syu"  i get the following error below
> is there a recomended way around the problem of  var/lock and var/run
> is it safe to delete them to update .
>
>
According to the posts I saw the way forward is to do (as root):
pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem && pacman -S filesystem --force

I did this and the update continues - you get warnings at the end of it as
warning: directory permissions differ on sys/
filesystem: 755  package: 555

This is the new "normal" and the system should then work fine after
that upgrade of filesystem
-- 
mike c