Update problem - var/lib/pacman/db.lck

[Mr_Ecks]

Just FYI, the updater is functioning again. It had to do with the Arch mirrors as reported here:

Eos-update-notifier shows updates, but pacman & yay will not find them

It has been 7-10 days since I last had any system update found by pacman or yay - excluding a couple of AUR updates with the latter. As if that was not suspicious enough, I got notifications for 20, then 22, and today 26 as displayed by eos-update notifier. However, as I go to the command line to fetch them, it will not go further than this :: Synchronising package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date endeavouros is up to date…