Conflicting code?

Desktop Environments Budgie
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Tried using yay to update the os today, and there seems to be a problem concerning nvidia. Anyone know what s going on?

… systemd-257.7-1 systemd-libs-257.7-1 systemd-resolvconf-257.7-1
systemd-sysvcompat-257.7-1 thin-provisioning-tools-1.2.0-1
unrar-1:7.1.8-1 util-linux-2.41.1-1 util-linux-libs-2.41.1-1
xorg-server-21.1.18-2 xorg-server-common-21.1.18-2
yt-dlp-2025.06.25-1

Total Installed Size: 1691.07 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 68.73 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(58/58) checking keys in keyring [----------------------] 100%
(58/58) checking package integrity [----------------------] 100%
(58/58) loading package files [----------------------] 100%
(58/58) checking for file conflicts [----------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
→ error installing repo packages

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Yes.

3

I went ahead and used the command, yay -Sua, to at least update aur packages. Not really sure what s left to update now :thinking:

4

You need to do this:

pacman -Rdd linux-firmware
pacman -Syu linux-firmware
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Other than one error it worked as if it was meant to be.

… dracut[I]: *** Creating image file ‘/efi/7d7ee17d4af640a98fbd40590ed264ad/6.15.3-arch1-1/initrd’ ***
dracut[I]: *** Creating initramfs image file ‘/efi/7d7ee17d4af640a98fbd40590ed264ad/6.15.3-arch1-1/initrd’ done ***
error: unable to write to pipe (Broken pipe)
(15/22) Reloading system bus configuration…
(16/22) eos-nvidia-fix.hook…

At any rate, thanks.

6

You can ignore that.

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Thanks. You are the MAN!
As a side note:
…in case you are not really a man. Can t be too careful these days.