Update of timeshift fails for BTRFS root

[DromundKaas]

For a few days now, my “yay -Syu” ends with the following messages:

Fehler: Der Vorgang konnte nicht durchgeführt werden (In Konflikt stehende Dateien)
timeshift: /etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfs.path existiert im Dateisystem
Fehler sind aufgetreten, keine Pakete wurden aktualisiert.

Translation:

Error: The process could not be executed (conflicting files)
timeshift: /etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfs.path exists in file system
Errors occured, no packages updated

Did I miss some after update work with the mentioned file? Do I need to rename the file, do some diffing here?

[pebcak]

Please check @jonathon’s FAQ here:

[FAQ] Package installation says FILENAME exists in filesystem; “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)”

I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libname: /insert/file/name/here exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Why is this happening? The package manager, pacman , has detected an unexpected file already exists on disk. By design it will not overwrite files that already exist. This is a design feature, not a flaw - package managers are de…

[DromundKaas]

Thanks for the link, pebcak. After studying the link I moved the file to a new name, as no package claimed it. Although it looks like a valid configuration file, the new timeshift installed the same file with more configuration. The problem looks solved.

[pebcak]

Great!
After some time, if everything is alright you could just delete that old file.