I came up with a patch for FS #5009 (the error when /var/lib/pacman is a loopback device or other mounted partition. I have not been able to test it yet, as I am on my mac (so sending this with Mail, so let us hope it doesn't mess this up :P), but in a few hours I'll be on my Arch computer and I'll test it then and obviously report back. Also, fixed the step number in the comments ('cause I am that nit pickish), because there were two step 1's. ~ Jamie / yankees26