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JWJones

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From: Cascadia

Registered: 2009-06-10

Posts: 20

Shaman won't launch - error message

I like to be able to browse packages with Shaman occasionally, but I get this error message now when I try to launch it:

"There was a problem while testing libalpm. Maybe another application has a lock on it."

Any idea what's going on here, and how to correct it?

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: Shaman won't launch - error message

Install lsof.
Which is the output as root of

lsof | grep libalpm

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JWJones

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From: Cascadia

Registered: 2009-06-10

Posts: 20

Re: Shaman won't launch - error message

Thanks, again!

anthonym2121

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Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 18

Re: Shaman won't launch - error message

Install lsof.
Which is the output as root of

lsof | grep libalpm

I have the same problem that shaman is getting that error but when I try to install lsof

yaourt -S lsof

I get:

==> Pacman is currently in use, please wait.

it's obvious I need to quit an app but how?

also when I do a system update -Syu I get this

sudo pacman -Syu
:: 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.lck

Last edited by anthonym2121 (2010-01-20 01:40:14)

anthonym2121

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Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 18

Re: Shaman won't launch - error message

never mind I fixed it and found out how to remove it

sudo rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

Last edited by anthonym2121 (2010-01-20 02:01:54)