... pacman -Syu error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. IgnorePkg = initscripts ...

... /etc/profile.d/locale.sh but didn't want to do the same thing for /etc/mtab or /var/run Tried running pacman -S filesystem --force and still can't get past the errors.. http://s19.postimage.org/7307lbssz/8_25_2012_9_26_54_AM.png

... I get a series of warnings like: "warning: could not get filesystem information for /acct: No such file or directory" and for ... around this, but in the end, you'll probably need to just rebuild the mtab every time with your bash script to start the chroot up... To workaround ...

... done [12:21:29] e2fsprogs ... done [12:21:30] expat ... done [12:21:30] filesystem ... done [12:21:31] findutils ... done [12:21:31] gawk ... done ... system: [12:22:10] qemu ... done [12:22:10] dns ... done [12:22:10] mtab ... done [12:22:10] groups ... done [12:22:12] repository ... done [12:22:12] ...

... could not be found. Then I ran pacman -Syyu . I ran into the issue with mtab needing to be replaced, so I copied mtab to a backup and then ran pacman -S --force filesystem and ran pacman -Syyu and got the first set of output below in pacman.log. During ...