Seems because of the HWINFO bug seems some did remove /sbin or force update hwinfo… please dont do that !!!
forcing is breaking 
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but shortly hwinfo is fixed
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community/hwinfo 21.76-1 21.77-2 0,00 MiB 0,96 MiB
fixed it!
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in mean time some filesystems are broken 
well I just tried to update my system, I haven’t done anything else than
sudo pacman -Syu
and the error I get is:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
hwinfo: /sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
sure that 
but we are here to help fixing
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update your database/system: sudo pacman -Syyu
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still same error… should I do yay -Syyu?
just wait
or find a fresh mirror
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Problem is I am on the road and need to install a GPS app, but want to first make sure my system is up to date to avoid any package breakage. Can I just use the welcome app and update mirrors?
hwinfo is handy but not a system liberary. are you not comfortablen remove hwinfo does not break the system
or just dont update !
yes update mirrors and sudo pacman -Syyu --ignore hwinfo if it still does not update to latest hwinfo …
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problem solved!
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