Conflicting dependencies during update

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I have Manjaro OB on three computers all working well except one can not update.

This is what happens, using pamac:

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Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: bashrc-manjaro will be installed before its bash dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: harfbuzz will be installed before its freetype2 dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: libglvnd will be installed before its mesa dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: smbclient will be installed before its cifs-utils dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: lib32-keyutils will be installed before its lib32-krb5 dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be installed before its lib32-freetype2 dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: lib32-libglvnd will be installed before its lib32-mesa dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: usbmuxd will be installed before its libimobiledevice dependency

132.5 mb downoad required

Failed to prepare transaction

conflicting dependencies:
util-linux-libs and libutil-linux are in conflict

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Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

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Is this in the right place?

Or should it be in General Support?

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libutil-linux isnt in the repos.
So you will have to remove that and/or install util-linux-libs first … or something along those lines.
You can look at what is currently requiring libutil-linux with

pactree -r libutil-linux
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the package util-linux-libs is replacing libutil-linux - so I suspect at some point you have answered no when queried to replace libutil-linux.

rerun the update from terminal - read the prompts and when you reach the replacement answer Y

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pactree -r libutil-linux

shows Octopi

Which I am not using anyway

I’ll try eliminating that

6

After eliminating Octopi with pacman

I did the update also with pacman accepting all the replacements.

The 2 gb update is now underway.

So it looks like that did the job.

Thanks to both of you.

7

Lamentably, the upgrade failed.

(I waited too long).

I get no display signal and the grub image wasn’t updated.

Maybe I can get in there and fix it but it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything like that.

Any suggestions?}

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I’ll study that and try a few things.

The screen is not totally black - a white cursor flashes on and off.

IOW, the system is not totally dead.

(Meanwhile I did another installation on separate partitions).