On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Leonid Isaev <lis...@umail.iu.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:49:46 -0500 > "David C. Rankin" <drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> 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. >> >> Is this safe to force? I ask because I don't want to kill login by >> forcing if there is a preferred way to do this.... What say the experts? > > Hmm.. pacman should have taken care of this automatically. > > Do: pacman -Sy && pacman -Su --ignore util-linux,shadow && pacman -S shadow > util-linux. If the last call fails, use --force.
Never use force, not even as a last resort, unless you really know that it is the right thing to do. It is very likely to end up deleting your files. -t
