Trying to upgrade today and got this message at the end:
I updated Arch and Endeavour mirrors, restarted, tried again, but still got the same message.
Here is my boot log: https://0x0.st/-k.txt
Please advise.
While I won’t be promising that you should in this specific case, you can do
sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite '*'
It’s probably fine; the issue being a former partial update…
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cd into /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/__pycache__/ and rename the __init__.cpython-310.pyc file to something else. After that, run the update again.
This is the practice recommended by the Arch Wiki. Using the --overwite flag is not recommended because you run the risk of losing important files you might need.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#"Failed_to_commit_transaction_(conflicting_files)"_error
This article contains pretty much everything you need to know on handling basic pacman error messages.
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Just before you came on I implemented @rene 's recommendation, and that worked.
However, your warning got me worried. Should I still do what you recommend, and run the update again, or is there no point now?
In this case, using the --overwrite flag is harmless. The file in question is just a file containing bytecode that python will generate again once the appropriate scripts are run.
Just be more careful with the --overwrite flag in general and read through the Arch Wiki page I sent you. Cheers.
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Thanks for your advice.
Thank you. For anyone else who reads this in the future, be careful with the --overwrite command, as anthony93 points out above
No problem.
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Put this here as well for “posterity”:
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So my advise would then have been the “I don’t care” way 
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In my notes, it’s called “What the Heck” way 
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