On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:08 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > 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 Take care to do it if and only if /var/lock and /var/run are already symlinks ! On my installation they were mounted as tmpfs, which required more intervention.
