[arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Cc: schtiehve <schtiehve at riseup.net>
> 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:
> > 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 <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> >> Reply-To: mar77i at protonmail.ch,
> >>     General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> >> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> >> Cc: mar77i at protonmail.ch
> >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress
> >>
> >> ??????? Original Message ???????
> >> On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:21 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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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