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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br>Hi and thanks Marshall and Jonathon!<br><br>I should have used quotes to indicate that last bit is the actual output i got after trying unsuccessfully to udate, then rebooting. It came into a screen with the text "Oh no! Something has gone wrong and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again." Below that was a button to logout, but both my mouse and keyboard were frozen. I shut down and rebooted several times to that same screen. I was unable to use the "E" at startup. Everything goes by so fast, possibly because i am using grub with other os's on the same drive.<br><br>After a day of rest, last night Manjaro booted normally. Everything is useable, but the update problem persists.<br>sudo pacman -Scc gives me...<br><br>error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)<br>error: could not lock database: File exists<br> if you're sure a package manager is not already<br> running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck<br><br>When i try to rm db.lck it asks if i am sure, i answer y, then it says "permission denied."<br><br><pre><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">sudo rm -fR /etc/pacman.d/gnupg</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">gets no answer so i assume something has been done here.</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">The commands</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">sudo pacman-keyring --init</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">sudo pacman-keyring --populate archlinux manjaro</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">get the response "pacman-keyring:command not found"<br><br>sudo pacman-mirrors -g<br>i get a list of servers<br><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">The last 2 lines get a repeat of the first command</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">...<br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">error: could not lock database: File exists</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"> if you're sure a package manager is not already</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"> running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck</font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Whatever all this is has to do with the update on the 17th. Before that i installed the iso and </font><font style="" face="Calibri,sans-serif">updated with no problem.<br>I see no other mention of this here or on the manjaro forums, buthope if we can solve this it may help others.<br>Using Dell Latitude e5420 with stock hardware.<br>Thanks much for your time and input!<br>peace<br>-bill</font></pre> </div></body>
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