[arch-general] Error installing linux-3.15.5-1

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> just did my usual pacman -Syu and was offered a new linux version, which
> I accepted to install, but got 1000s of error messages like this:
>
> ,----
> | linux: /usr/lib/modules/3.15.5-1-ARCH/modules.symbols.bin exists in
> | filesystem
> | linux: /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.15-ARCH/version exists
> | in filesystem
> `----
>
> A few hours before pacman complained that the DB is locked, and I
> removed the db-lock (as proposed) since I was sure I had no pacman
> operation going on.
>
> Do I have a corrupted pacman DB now? What would be the steps for
> diagnosis and repair?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#I_get_an_error_when_updating:_.22file_exists_in_filesystem.22.21