On 02/03/2010 02:01 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > <snip> God, I knew this upgrade was going to cause me to lose sleep :p I decided to upgrade another i586 box to compare how the upgrade went on box 2. The boxes are essentially identical. There were a few additional problems on the second box: The first problem caused the update to fail on missing dependencies because phonon wasn't installed. Installing it cured the first problem: [02:16 supersff:/home/david] # pms phonon :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date resolving dependencies... warning: provider package was selected (phonon-gstreamer provides phonon-backend) looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (2): phonon-gstreamer-4.3.80-2 phonon-4.3.80-2 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 1.36 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (2/2) checking for file conflicts [####################################################] 100% (1/2) installing phonon-gstreamer [####################################################] 100% (2/2) installing phonon [####################################################] 100% The next problem was a conflict with kde-meta-kdepim (which I guess is just the old wrapper for all the kdepim packages) Removing it allowed the upgrade to proceed: [02:19 supersff:/home/david] # pms -uv | tee tmp/kde44betainst.txt :: Replace kdelibs-experimental with testing/kdelibs? [Y/n] :: Replace kernel-headers with core/linux-api-headers? [Y/n] Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log Targets : None :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: kfax: local (3.3.6-2) is newer than community (3.3.6-1) resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kde-meta-kdepim: requires kdepim-akonadiconsole [02:20 supersff:/home/david] # pmq | grep kdepim kde-meta-kdepim 4.3-7 kdemod3-kdepim-akregator 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-backup 0.2-1 kdemod3-kdepim-base 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kaddressbook 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kalarm 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kandy 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-karm 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kitchensync 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kmail 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-knode 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-knotes 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kontact 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-korganizer 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-korn 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-kpilot 3.5.9-2 kdemod3-kdepim-wizards 3.5.9-2 kdepim-akregator 4.3.4-1 kdepim-console 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kaddressbook 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kalarm 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kjots 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kleopatra 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kmail 4.3.4-1 kdepim-knode 4.3.4-1 kdepim-knotes 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kontact 4.3.4-1 kdepim-korganizer 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kpilot 4.3.4-1 kdepim-kresources 4.3.4-1 kdepim-ktimetracker 4.3.4-1 kdepim-libkdepim 4.3.4-1 kdepim-runtime 4.3.4-1 kdepim-wizards 4.3.4-1 kdepimlibs 4.3.4-1 [02:21 supersff:/home/david] # pacman -R kde-meta-kdepim checking dependencies... (1/1) removing kde-meta-kdepim [####################################################] 100% Now the second box is updating: Total Download Size: 248.49 MB Total Installed Size: 2925.49 MB Whew almost 3G! Can't wait to see what we get :-) I'll report back if the same segfaults occur during the upgrade. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com