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Hi,
I cannot use pacman anymore because of pacman-cage. I cannot write anymore in /var/lib/pacman/
LANG=US sudo pacman -Suy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
if you're sure a package manager is not already
running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lckI ceck that lock file /var/lib/pacman/db.lck is not present. The problem is something else.
I tried to create a file on the loop file (in directory /var/lib/pacman/) and it tells me that there is no space:
Error writing test: No space left on device
but df -h gives me an occupation of only 43%:
/dev/loop0 146M 62M 84M 43% /var/lib/pacmanI don't understand the problem!! Can you help me on that?
I have to mention that I run pacman-optimize few time before the appearence of the problem. May it be the reason of this problem? Can that be solved?
Last edited by manouchk (2011-02-06 12:58:59)
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I tried this:
I umounted the loop file sudo umount /var/lib/pacman
mount again:
mount -o loop,rw /var/lib/pacman.db /var/lib/pacman
I cannot creata a text file. It also says no space left on device.
So I desactivated pacman-cag like that:
I copied /var/lib/pacman in /var/lib/pacman-tmp
rmdir /var/lib/pacman
mv /var/lib/pacman-tmp /var/lib/pacman
It seem to work right now, without using pacman-cage. It will be slower!
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Well, I did try to uncage manually. It works fine till reboot. Now my pacman database has been totally lost as if no packages has been installed on my system!
I desactivated pacmandb deamons but it looks like it was not sufficient and the loop file was created. I really missed something about the internals of pacman-cage. I though that the loop was mounted by pacmandb deamons. Aparently this is not the case!!
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After simply unmounting the loop file, It lokks like I got back everything.
I did save the package list (pacman -Qqe > package_list) as a security in case of problem at next boot time!
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