Archlinux Pacman Error Failed To Synchronize Any Databases
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databases" errors occur when your package manager thinks that there's already another instance of your package manager running on your computer. Quite often this is failed to synchronize any databases manjaro actually not the case and the error is in fact just an update failed manjaro delete lck file error. And it can be fixed quite easily by deleting the database lock file. To do this, open
Unable To Lock Database Manjaro
a terminal and execcute the following command: sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck That's it. marcin82 2016-06-12 14:50:25 UTC #2 The best solve to prevent that this warning appears is not to use
Failed To Synchronize Any Databases Arch
pamac-daemon. Existing of lock file may inform other instance of pacman / yaourt that package database is in use. Modyfing it by 2 or more instances of package manager at the time may corrupt it ... Persephone 2016-06-13 10:36:54 UTC #3 @Heart-Of-A-Lion, these tutorials you have been writing are just fantastic and I appreciate them so much, being new to Linux pacman unable to lock database and Manjaro as I am. I really hope that these find their way into the new wiki when that is set up. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you sincerely for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and the time it takes to write all these. So, Thanks. Heart-Of-A-Lion 2016-06-13 10:40:55 UTC #4 Thank you Persephone. mgundogdu 2016-06-13 11:15:03 UTC #5 This command turns permission error and dont remove target file. In this situation open file manager with root permission.You can this via terminalsudo thunar -->Go to file system/var/lib/pacmanif there is a file db.lck remove thisor right click desktop choose 'thunar root' then go to ..... excalibur1234 2016-06-13 11:36:22 UTC #6 here is a list of other common errors and their fixes, which might occur (taken from pacli-simple): "sudo rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck" This command removes Pacman's database lock. The database lock prevents multiple Pacman instances from running at the same time and interfering with each other. ATTENTION: Only run this command when no other Pacman instance (e.g. Pacman, Yaourt, Pamac, Octopi, PacmanXG4, ...) is running. "sudo pacman-mirrors -g && sudo pa
216monster Member Registered: 2012-06-18 Posts: 6 [Solved] Updated Mirrorlist with Generator now Syy Error Hello, Im sure Im more then likely missing something simple, perhaps someone can correct my failure. .
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I used http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and followed the steps, then did "sudo nano etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" and pacman update deleted the servers in the list and copy n pasted the servers from the newly generated list. Im trying to "sudo pacman -Syy" and Im getting an error on all repo's , the error looks like : :: Synchronizing package databases...error: failed to update core (no servers configured for repository)error: failed to update https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-solve-the-unable-to-lock-database-or-failed-to-synchronize-any-databases-errors/3939 extra (no servers configured for repository)error: failed to update community (no servers configured for repository)error: failed to update multilib (no servers configured for repository)error: failed to synchronize any databaseserror: failed to init transaction (no servers configured for repository)For the record I have rebooted . Thanks for reading!Edit : Foolishly forgot to remove the "#" before all the servers .. sorry for wasting thread space/reader time.. Last edited http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=3007 by 216monster (2012-06-26 19:41:29) Offline #2 2012-06-26 22:42:54 Mr Green Administrator Registered: 2010-11-07 Posts: 6,594 Re: [Solved] Updated Mirrorlist with Generator now Syy Error Late for the party but I find this handysed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" mirrorlist Best things in life are systemd free... Offline #3 2012-06-27 03:13:48 pablokal Administrator From: Nijmegen, Holland Registered: 2010-10-12 Posts: 3,579 Website Re: [Solved] Updated Mirrorlist with Generator now Syy Error No error is foolish, I think. The small little errors are the ones that come from fatigue or lack of concentration; these can give people the feeling they can't manage, while the solution is often dead simple. Getting your questions answered here at ArchBang ForumsPlease! Always give hardware info, if there is a chance that 's relevant: #lspci -vnnOn Arch(bang) and Openbox: http://stillstup.blogspot.com/ Offline #4 2016-02-14 10:48:50 JusAnt25 Member Registered: 2016-02-13 Posts: 2 Re: [Solved] Updated Mirrorlist with Generator now Syy Error i have the same problem and cant fint no solution if any one can help please let me kno[root@Lovely ablive]# pacman -Syyu:: Synchronizing package databases...error: failed to update core (no servers configured for repository)error: failed to update extra (no servers configured for repository)error: failed to update community (no servers configure
refuses to update databases. This failed to is the error: When entering this command: sudo pacman -Sy The output was: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed to update failed to synchronize core (unexpected error) error: failed to update extra (unexpected error) error: failed to update community (unexpected error) error: failed to synchronize any databases After looking for the solution I realized that all the mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist were commented, so there were not mirrors available to update from. The simple solution was to uncomment some of them and all was working again.
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