Recover from a pacman lock left behind by a power cut
A machine switched off mid-update leaves /var/lib/pacman/db.lck behind. Nothing removed it, so every subsequent run deferred on it - one power cut would have stopped updates permanently and silently, which on an unattended machine is the worst outcome there is. A lock older than the current boot is provably abandoned: no process that could hold it still exists. Those are now removed and the interrupted upgrade is repeated, with pacman reinstalling anything caught half-written. A lock that is merely unheld within the same boot stays untouched and is only reported, since removing it could corrupt a live transaction; the boot-time test is what makes the difference between a proof and a guess. A fuser check is kept alongside it so a backwards clock jump cannot make a live lock look abandoned. Documented what each layer can actually promise: suspend and normal shutdown are blocked by the existing inhibitor, a hard power-off cannot be prevented by anything, and snap-pac's pre/post snapshots remain the backstop.
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@@ -257,3 +257,9 @@ msgstr ""
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msgid "The last run was stopped before it finished."
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msgstr ""
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msgid "Finishing an interrupted update"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "The last update was cut short, most likely because the machine was switched off. It is being finished now."
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msgstr ""
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@@ -258,3 +258,9 @@ msgstr "Zurückgehalten: %s"
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msgid "The last run was stopped before it finished."
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msgstr "Der letzte Lauf wurde abgebrochen, bevor er fertig war."
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msgid "Finishing an interrupted update"
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msgstr "Abgebrochenes Update wird beendet"
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msgid "The last update was cut short, most likely because the machine was switched off. It is being finished now."
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msgstr "Das letzte Update wurde unterbrochen, vermutlich weil der Rechner ausgeschaltet wurde. Es wird jetzt zu Ende geführt."
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