On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom, All, > > I ran into the following error regarding util-linux upgrade. I've looked > in the forum and the website, but nothing specific to it. The error is: > > (72/72) checking for file conflicts > [###########################################] 100% > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) > util-linux: /bin/login exists in filesystem > util-linux: /etc/pam.d/chfn exists in filesystem > util-linux: /etc/pam.d/chsh exists in filesystem > util-linux: /etc/pam.d/login exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/bin/chfn exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/bin/chsh exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/bin/newgrp exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/sbin/vigr exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/sbin/vipw exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/chfn.1.gz exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/chsh.1.gz exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/login.1.gz exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/newgrp.1.gz exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/share/man/man8/vigr.8.gz exists in filesystem > util-linux: /usr/share/man/man8/vipw.8.gz exists in filesystem > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Upgrade shadow at the same time and it should solve the problem (or if not, specify the upgrade order manually as Leonid suggested, though I have not seen this beeing needed myself). Don't use --force. Tom
