... directly use pacman from the chrooted environment complains about some filesystem differences - perhaps this is because i'm interfacing with the ... [###########################] 100% error: could not open file: /etc/mtab: No such file or directory error: could not determine filesystem mount ...

... eventlog-0.2.12-3 expat-2.1.0-1 ffmpeg-1:0.11.1-1 file-5.11-1.2 filesystem-2012.6-4 fixesproto-5.0-2 fuse-2.9.0-1 gawk-4.0.1-1 gcc-4.7.1-4 ... failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem filesystem: /var/run exists in filesystem initscripts: ...

... but now I get: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Here are the contents ...

... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (12): linux-api-headers-3.7.4-1 filesystem-2013.01-3 glibc-2.17-3 libarchive-3.0.4-2 pth-2.0.7-4 libksba-1.2.0-3 ... failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem filesystem: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in ...

... no name!@Arch Linux ARM install:/# umount /mnt warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory I have no name!@Arch Linux ARM install:/# ... tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab file while determining whether ...

... <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> [root@arch_linux etc]# df # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 7756068 1727904 ... 61520 0 61520 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 61520 0 61520 0% /tmp [root@ mtab ]# cat mtab rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1 ...

... There I changed the "bootcmd" variable to the correct root filesystem and then continued the boot ... and it worked! Now how do I make ... [BUSY] [ 5.690000] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal [DONE] :: Creating mtab [DONE] :: Mounting Local Filesystems [DONE] :: Activating Swap [DONE] ...

After updating system where the filesystem was one of the things to get upgraded. Boot fails when supposed to switch ... go thru with installation it fails with errors: error: could not open file: /etc/mtab: No such file or directory error: could not determine filesystem mount points ...

... that there are some upgrade problems, such as updating to pacman4 , filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem. Please search the forum and there is solution here already.

/facepalm

pacman -Syf filesystem initscripts

Do I have to show you the direct search results... .?