[arch-general] pacman error

Erich Eckner arch at eckner.net
Tue Jul 27 17:12:42 UTC 2021


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On Tue, 27 Jul 2021, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote:

> Installation path was archinstall along with some post-install
> configuration needed to enable accessibility among other things.
> Successful boot with speech coming up.  Then as root
> pacman -Syu
> I get back an error saying pacman cannot lock data bases and pacman fails.

This indicatess, there is some /var/lib/pacman/db.lock - either due to a 
still-running pacman or because some past pacman run did not finish 
properly. Check for the file and if no pacman is running, delete it.

> pacman-key --populate ran before the pacman command and finished with no
> problems.
> What did I do wrong?

No idea, why pacman crashed on its last run :-)

regards,
Erich

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