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piotr

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Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 58

pacman crushed

Hi,
Im new to Arch Linux. It is the best distro so far, but Im still trying to learn it. Then recently I got this problem with pacman. It does not work. Any time I use "pacman -S . . . " I get this message:

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.lck.

Can someone help me, how to get pacman work again?
Thanks,
piotr.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: pacman crushed

killall pacman; rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,390

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Re: pacman crushed

You could try following the instructions in the error message...

if you're sure a package manager is not already
  running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck.

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piotr

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Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 58

Re: pacman crushed

I tried your suggestion. It does not work. I get this message:

killall pacman
pacman: no process killed
[root@myhost piotr]# rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/pacman/db.lck': No such file or directory

cactus

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From: t͈̫̹ͨa͖͕͎̱͈ͨ͆ć̥̖̝o̫̫̼s͈̭̱̞͍̃!̰

Registered: 2004-05-25

Posts: 4,622

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Re: pacman crushed

try this.

pacman --debug -Syy

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piotr

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Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 58

Re: pacman crushed

Hi,
Solved. Yes. I tried pacman -Syy and it started to work. Thanks a lot cactus. I really appreciate this help.
Piotr