[arch-general] problems while upgrading kdelibs

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Thursday, May 09, 2013 08:42:41 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While upgrading kdelibs-4.10.2-4 x86_64, I am getting errors such as these..
> 
> kdelibs: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.auth.conf exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /usr/bin/checkXML exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /usr/bin/kcookiejar4 exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /usr/bin/kde4-config exists in filesystem
> kdelibs: /usr/bin/kded4 exists in filesystem
> 
> There are total 3503 such errors, all for kdelibs only. As of now pacman
> reports that none of them are owned by any packages but thats a suspicious
> claim since it includes files like /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 and
> /usr/bin/kcookiejar4.
> 
> Initially I thought it was a package sync error and any updated packages
> will be pushed soon. But after 4 days the situation persists.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this? Should I just use --force?

I found the problem and fixed it.

A bit of digging revealed that pacman -Ql kdelibs was not listing anything and 
/var/lib/pacman/local/kdelibs-4.10.3-3/files was empty. I copied it from my 
laptop running identical setup and it worked.

Still, what emptied the file remains a mystery.
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Regards
 Shridhar