Things were working well with my testing on CachyOS. However, while I was working on downloading packages from the AUR through Bauh package installer, I was unable to download Vorta because of the db.lck.

What I did before was I downloaded:

Rclone Browser, which was successful and worked.

Rclone UI flatpak and appimage, I was interested in using another GUI because it had more features and I could not understand the Rclone commands outside of the basics. For some reason, the Rclone UI flatpak and appimage failed to launch properly, so I uninstalled them both.

Then I tried another Rclone GUI, but had the same issue. I think it was the Rclone Shuttle or Kopia. Both strangely did not work, but the Rclone Browser did.

Anyway, I wanted to try Vorta in preparation of using BorgBase as my future replacement for Google Drive. Vorta download started then terminated with a message about the db.lck.

I tried the following to remove the error:

Attempt the removal of db.lck.

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

This only returned with

rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/pacman/db.lck': Read-only file system

Then I tried to find the db.lck in the path. I found it, tried to delete it with administrator privileges. But that failed, too.

Looking up online, I found threads that discuss how to find Pacman process. I tried to find the Pacman process with:

ps -aux | grep pacman

But this only returns with:

penwryt+   13674  0.0  0.0   6956  4148 pts/0    S<+  18:01   0:00 grep --color=auto pacman

Which I honestly cannot make head or tails out of.

I tried looking into permissions:

.--------- 0 root  4 Nov 22:18  /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

Of which I have no idea how to change.

I tried rolling back to a snapshot before doing all the downloads. The db.lck stayed. I tried using CachyOS Hello’s Remove db lock, did not work.

I tried sudo pacman -Syu, did not work and got an error. I tried sudo pacman -Syy, still got an error.

But, yeah, the solution I’m looking for is how to resolve this and prevent it. I may have corrupted or interrupted something and I hope a fix would avoid me having to reinstall CachyOS.

Anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!