Container installs no package
Hey, I just tried to install a package in an arch container, wont work:
$ sudo pacman -S kdenlive
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: File exists
if you're sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
btw. cant copy and paste from Container Terminal
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Ensure you’re in the container shell
Remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck from your container
Sure I am in the container shell, theres no db.lck at the mentioned directory, already tried
Also you should get kdenlive as a flatpak
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Ok thank you I try that
@Senzenfrenz, you've gained the level
1I tried to reinstall the container which aswell did not work: I get: chmod: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/host-spawn': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access '/etc/sudo.conf': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access '/usr/bin/sudo': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access '/usr/bin/sudo /usr No such file or directory and other stuff which while writing this container gave a ton of error messages and finally closed itself so I coud not type all the stuff that went wrong here but basically in the end it said "failed to create container"
Now by the time of writing I cant do pretty much anything cant create containers, cant do sudo system install or system remove stuff. In this case no matter which package I want to install directly to the system it gives me: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
torbrowser-launcher: /etc/apparmor.d/torbrowser.Browser.firefox exists in filesystem
torbrowser-launcher: /etc/apparmor.d/torbrowser.Tor.tor exists in filesystem
torbrowser-launcher: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/torbrowser exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. So I guess installing Tor wasnot the best Idea? But I cant remove it aswell because system remove says that tor is not installed so not can be removed but it is installed and works 😄
system is a hot mess and I don’t even know where to start
Seems systemd-nspawn isn’t working right
Can I do anything about that myself, check some stuff or restore previous state of the system or something like that? Btw "attempting to acquire system lock" takes for ages (but nothing is updated in the background as far as "journalctl -xeu akshara -f" goes
I am of course not a very advanced user but at this point I think I must consider my OS broken must be that my installation of Tor (which was just from the arch repo itself) broke it because before it everything was working. Or the os broke itself somehow.