D. R. Evans [2012.07.20 1541 -0600]: > Norbert Zeh said the following at 07/19/2012 06:08 PM : > > > > > Well, the filesystem instructions are older and applied at the time the glibc > > upgrade was not an issue yet. Combining the two instructions, I would guess the > > following should work: > > > > pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem --ignore glibc > > OK. > > > pacman -S --force filesystem --ignore glibc > > OK. > > > pacman -Sd <everything you couldn't upgrade due to ignored glibc> > > OK. FWIW, the list of packages was: > > attica binutils boost-libs eclipse eclipse-cdt faac ffmpeg gcc > gcc-libs gnutls grep gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins icu jedit kdebase-runtime > kdelibs libcups libgl liblrdf libmp4v2 libproxy libtool libva linux > mesa mkinitcpio openjdk6 pcre poppler poppler-glib qt raptor soprano > swig xine-lib xorg-server-xephyr > > > pacman -Su > > > > Not OK: > > > [root@shack n7dr]# pacman -Su > > :: Starting full system upgrade... > > resolving dependencies... > > looking for inter-conflicts... > > > > Targets (1): glibc-2.16.0-2 > > > > Total Installed Size: 33.94 MiB > > Net Upgrade Size: 0.83 MiB > > > > Proceed with installation? [Y/n] > > (1/1) checking package integrity [##########################################################################################] 100% > > (1/1) loading package files [##########################################################################################] 100% > > (1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################################] 100% > > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) > > glibc: /lib exists in filesystem > > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I got the same error at that point. What this means is that you either have some unowned (by any package) files in /lib (/lib/modules/* is a good candidate) or you have some other packages (most likely from AUR) owning files under /lib. The wiki page explains well how to look for them. At least, I followed those instructions and managed to identify the packages that blocked the upgrade. The key here really seems to be to make sure that glibc is the only package which at this point owns anything under /lib. I think in my case it also helped to uninstall some packages and reinstall them after the glibc upgrade. Keep pushing, you're almost there ;) Cheers, Norbert
