pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring returns error cannot update core among other repositories and pacman -Ss archlinux-keyring shows the keyring to be installed with date of 20200622-1 on it. On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Rafael Fontenelle wrote:

Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:54:44 From: Rafael Fontenelle Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: arch-general@lists.archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 2:14 PM Jude DaShiell wrote:

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I found and downloaded a current mirrorslist file and selected servers to use. pacman cannot update though and I suspect this is because the necessary ssh keys have to be imported. How is this done using pacman facilities in such a situation?

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Hi Jude,

Try first installing Arch's keys (without the -u flag for now) and then try to upgrade the installed software (now with -u flag). The commands involved are:

pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

and

pacman -Syu

Best regards, Rafael Fontenelle

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The hang up turned out to be /var/lib/pacman/db.lck. An upgrade got disrupted so that file needed to be removed and that removal solved this issue. If that happens again, I'll now know to look for and remove that lock file in the future. On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, mar77i via arch-general wrote:

Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:13:56 From: mar77i via arch-general Reply-To: mar77i@protonmail.ch, General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: mar77i@protonmail.ch Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

??????? Original Message ??????? On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:21 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

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pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring returns error cannot update core among other repositories and pacman -Ss archlinux-keyring shows the keyring to be installed with date of 20200622-1 on it.

...is this the same issue as on the other discussion thread?

pacman -Ss shows the package as it's available in the repository. If you want to see the installed package, you have to type `pacman -Qs [packagename]`.

cheers! mar77i

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Yes, and both issues got solved on this end. On Thu, 13 Aug 2020, schtiehve via arch-general wrote:

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:16:57 From: schtiehve via arch-general To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: schtiehve Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

That sould usually be in the error message. Something like "could not lock database" so in the future it might be helpfull to post the error message that way you can get better help from this list.

Regards Schtiehve

Am 2020-08-11 23:22, schrieb Jude DaShiell:

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The hang up turned out to be /var/lib/pacman/db.lck. An upgrade got disrupted so that file needed to be removed and that removal solved this issue. If that happens again, I'll now know to look for and remove that lock file in the future.

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, mar77i via arch-general wrote:

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:13:56 From: mar77i via arch-general Reply-To: mar77i@protonmail.ch, General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: mar77i@protonmail.ch Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

??????? Original Message ??????? On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:21 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

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pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring returns error cannot update core among other repositories and pacman -Ss archlinux-keyring shows the keyring to be installed with date of 20200622-1 on it.

...is this the same issue as on the other discussion thread?

pacman -Ss shows the package as it's available in the repository. If you want to see the installed package, you have to type `pacman -Qs [packagename]`.

cheers! mar77i

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

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