Thank you. Could you give me more details about updating them? I am new to arch linux, can I try to uninstall them, and later after my problem solved, install the new one by pacman? Renzhi Cao Email : rcrg4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ________________________________________ From: arch-general <arch-general-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Doug Newgard <scimmia22@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 8:23 PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem ---------------------------------------- > From: rcrg4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:30:59 -0600 > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem > > Hi, it seems your method is really complex. Is there any simple way? For my case, do you know how to fix the problem of lilo and grub-common? > > Sent from my iPhone Yeah, but either updating them to something that's actually in the repos or by updating the PKGBUILD to not put files in the old dirs and rebuild.