I’m using Endeavouros to access an arch arm on a pinephone through jumpdrive, but when I run sudo pacman --sysroot /media/a -S uboot-tools
I get the output: 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
and when I run sudo pacman --sysroot -Syyu I get the output:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database)
A common solution I found online was rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck, but no file called db.lck exists anywhere on my system.
What can I do to recover this phosh-aarch installation on my pinephone using Endeavouros to access it through pacman --sysroot?
Not having any experience of this sort of operation, I am afraid I can’t be of much help but I found the following post on chrooting into ARM based Arch so I thought you might want to investigate it further:
Hello, that got me around the problem, however the wifi not working on the phone for whatever reason seems to be causing the following error:
uboot-tools-2021.01-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz failed to download
error: failed retrieving file ‘uboot-tools-2021.01-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz’ from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : Could not resolve host: mirror.archlinuxarm.org
warning: too many errors from mirror.archlinuxarm.org, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid url for server)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Can I somehow update the phone’s apparently broken databases using the internet on the pc without finding every file individually?
I’m not sure what you mean by “mount the root file system on your phone”
Do you mean mounting the root file system currently on my phone to the pc? If so, I have the phone mounted on my pc using jumpdrive.
I have been trying to do a similar thing with EnOS ARM on a SD card. I don’t seem to get it working so far. My guess is that some proper chrooting for ARM based system is needed but I might be wrong.
Hopefully ARM wizards among forum members will chime in here soon.
I’m considering reinstalling the system. I have steps for the applications that I went through customized steps to install documented. I don’t know what happened with the internet on the phone but it’s been suggested on the pine64 forum that there was an error in my installation process, as well as the lack of anyone else appearing to have a pinephone with my same problem.
If you are not in a hurry wait and see if @pudge will look in here. Hopefully he will.
Otherwise I wish you the best of luck! Please come back and tell us how things will have worked out.
I checked the EndeavourOS mirrors, and I don’t see a problem.
This problem occurs while trying to use the Archlinux ARM mirrors via a go between device by using the -sysroot option. I have never tried this, and have never heard of anyone doing this.
From the pacman man page
Pacman will chroot and chdir into the system root
prior to running. This allows mounted guest systems to be properly operated on. Any
other paths given will be interpreted as relative to the system root. Requires root
privileges.
Any other paths given will be interpreted as relative to the system root.
Which relative to the system root are they referring to? The root of the PC or the root of the Pine Phone?
look same !! think i see post like it before