On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Kacper Żuk wrote: > W dniu 07.06.2012 21:04, P .NIKOLIC pisze: >> 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 . >> > > Check http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required-1/ I just resolved the problem on my server, you can stop the services that have files in /var/run and /var/lock. Then delete the directories and create the symlink. I managed to get it work without stopping all services (remote control via ssh). And as mentionned by Javier & Kacper: http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required-1/