Hi, Oliver Temlin:
Thank you, it seems my system is working now! Thank you very much!!!
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From: arch-general <arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org> on behalf of Temlin
Olivér <tem...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:27 AM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux
Subject: Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem
On Mar 10, 2014 4:18 PM, "Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)" <rc...@mail.missouri.edu>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I use this system for almost one year, and don't update the system.
I have tried mount /dev/sda3 as the root directory. And I try one thing
before chroot:
> #mkdir /mnt/bin
> #cp /bin/* /mnt/bin
> #arch-chroot /mnt
>
> Now I can go to the chroot jail. And surprised to me, I run the following
command, and I don't see any fails:
> #mv /bin/* /usr/bin/
> #rmdir /bin
> #pacman -Syu mkinitcpio systemd linux
> .....
>
> Now I am going to reboot my system, hopefully, it's going to work. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Renzhi Cao
>
> Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu
Hello,
If that should work, then try upgrading filesystem asap, and expect many
'/usr/bin/file already exists in filesystem' errors on subsequent updates.
Make sure, that they are unowned according to pacman (pacman -Qo
/path/to/file), and remove them before continuing.
Also make sure to never reboot between removing the files and upgrading
these packages.
--Oliver Temlin
