If you are using archzfs and the zfsonlinux, you know that it can happen from time to time that you have to wait until packages are updated to the newest kernel (or lts kernel).
Whenever you want to upgrade your system, you get an error like the following.
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: spl-linux-lts: installing linux-lts (4.9.32-1) breaks dependency 'linux-lts=4.9.30'
:: zfs-linux-lts: installing linux-lts (4.9.32-1) breaks dependency 'linux-lts=4.9.30'
:: zfs-utils-linux-lts: installing linux-lts (4.9.32-1) breaks dependency 'linux-lts=4.9.30'
To update your system without the kernel (and its dependencies), you can use the following trick.
#example if you use the lts kernel
#if you use plain pacman
pacman -Syyu --ignore=linux-lts,linux-lts-headers
#if you use pacaur
pacaur pacman -Syyu --ignore=linux-lts,linux-lts-headers
Good start in the day.
The workaholics from zfsonlinux just released version v0.6.5.8.. This also includes support for kernel 4.7.x.
So, it will only take a small amount of time until archzfs will ship a new release.
I just got the following entry on my boot up today:
systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.
After a while of searching using my favorit searchengine, I (as usual ;-)) found the most fitting solution in the bbs.archlinux.org.
The solution is given in the manpage of the tmpfiles.d.
tmpfiles.d(5) wrote:
If the administrator wants to disable a configuration file supplied by the vendor, the recommended way is to place a symlink to /dev/null in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ bearing the same filename.
So all you have to do is:
# sudo su
# cd /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
# cp journal-nocow.conf journal-nocow.conf.bak
# rm journal-nocow.conf.bak
# ln -s /dev/null journal-nocow.conf
And thats it. Fingers crossed you system will boot without errors.