/var/lib/pacman/db.lck is allready existing :: how to fix this!?

[dhubs]

good evening dear friends


first of all: i hope that you are fine and everything goes well at your site

i soemtimes have such errors


how to treat that error - what to do here

    ==> yay

    -> /var/lib/pacman/db.lck is allready existing

     ->  another instance of Pacman is allready active  just wait.

note: i am on EndeavourOS - what can i do here!?
i guess that this has to do with Pacman ...!? Isnt it so!?

look forward to hear from you

regards

[michaelk]

I believe there is a timer that automatically updates the database. If you try running pacman at the same time you will see the error. As the warning message suggests just wait until that process completes.

[dhubs]

Hi there

many thanks dear Michael - for the answer-

I believe there is a timer that automatically updates the database. If you try running pacman at the same time you will see the error. As the warning message suggests just wait until that process completes.

good points. I will check this out.

have a great day

greetings

update:



very interesting: well its somewhat annoying - each time i want to write the stuff to sdb - it turns out to land on sdb1 - i am pulling my hear.

                                                    /
sdb                         8:16   1  28,9G  0 disk 
└─sdb1                      8:17   1  28,9G  0 part /media/ubuntu/EOS_202502
sr0                        11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
ubuntu@T420s:~$

well generally i think: (theoretically) should i continue with the command

sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb

Now i think that i have to mount our freshly created filesystem:

sudo mkdir -p /media/ubuntu/sdb
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/ubuntu/sdb/

... if so: then i would / should go subsequently like so: i ll have to check the contents to see if it?s empty:

ls -al /media/ubuntu/sdb/

well that said: Now i guess that i have done all the necessary steps to get the usb-stick ready - so subsequently our rsync command should actually work:

sudo dd bs=4M if=~/Videos/eos2.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress oflag=sync

well - but honestly - allmost every time i try to write to sdb - it turns out to land on sdb1.

well i have to re-check and probably start over from the very beginning - that means - probably i should

a. erase the stick and work with dd and
b. start over again

dear Michael - this looks a bit strange doesnt it

again - have a great day..

greetings

[michaelk]

No it looks ok to me. The ISO file contains a partition plus bootloader which is part of the MBR.

[dhubs]

thank you so much dear Michaelk for the heads up and the review.

glad to hear from you..

and yes: i tried it out. The ISO-file worked perfectly - i was able to install the linux on the notebook.


thanks again for the help.
have a great evening.

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