pacman crushed

piotr · 2008-01-26 08:26:21

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 · 2008-01-26 08:30:12

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

Allan · 2008-01-26 08:30:51

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

piotr wrote:

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

piotr · 2008-01-26 08:42:40

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 · 2008-01-26 08:47:48

try this.

pacman --debug -Syy

piotr · 2008-01-26 08:51:12

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

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pacman crushed

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