[arm-allstar] update has an error

[David McGough]

Everyone,

I made a slight change in the Admin menu scripts to remove any 
stale lock-files when Option #1 gets run. This should resolve the 
lock-file problem several users have reported.

As usual, select Admin menu Option #1 to update...

73, David KB4FXC


On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, "David McGough via arm-allstar" wrote:

> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I appreciate this info! Yes, if the RPi board gets rebooted in the middle
> of an update or something else very unexpected happens, pacman will fail
> to remove db.lock file and that will keep pacman from running.
> 
> I'll add some code that cleans this condition up at boot-time.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> 73, David KB4FXC
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, "C B via arm-allstar" wrote:
> 
> > After watching the screen flash by quickly i noticed the it was a DB lock issue..rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lock.This cleared the problem.
> > 
> >       From: C B via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> >  To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> 
> > Cc: C B <harvard5362 at yahoo.com>
> >  Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:07 PM
> >  Subject: [arm-allstar] update has an error
> >    
> > Hi
> > on one of my sites from the menu a update (item 1 on the menu) was attempted.
> > the window flashes by quickly
> > it displays "error: failed to update" then it closes too fast.
> > the node seems to have good internet connectivity as if i type "ping yahoo.com" at the prompt it resolved yahoo and the pink responds.
> > Any suggestions?
> > Thank you
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
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