On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:04 PM, P .NIKOLIC <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
