Unable to lock database file

Reverting to the prior version This problem seems specific to databases located on a network share. For databases on a local machine, there is no issue. Was this discussion helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Use the application feedback command within Access to send in your comments to the Dev Team. I now see another similar thread in this forum with similar symptoms. Was this reply helpful? We have found the culprit for our problem! My team have found that the problem was in security update for MS office KB You can now find all the information regarding this latest bug, including the workaround at.

Here is the fix that worked for me regarding the shared MSAccess database locked file issue. Office Click2Run Version. After completed, verify the version number has reverted to the version Dec 3rd listed under the Account settings of the MSOffice application. Subsequently when the first user closes and reopens the database, no lock file is created at least not in the same location as the database , yet the second user still CANNOT open the database - even though no lock file exists.

Did you review the supplied link? Did you uninstall the updates, rollback the build no? That solve the issue while we wait for a fix from Microsoft. For anyone who has seen the issue on one of these channels, if you have the opportunity, please Update Now it may not happen automatically to get the updated version and validate that it addresses the issue.

You updated all your PC to this build and confirmed it was successful? Have you rebooted yes, grasping at straws here! Somebody in Kansas. For example: Create a new Access database on a network drive or open an existing database from a network drive.

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Unable to load Manjaro. Pacman "unable to lock database". Help can't boot. Xfce The database lock prevents multiple Pacman instances from running at the same time and interfering with each other. It will automatically choose the closest server for you. The second command forces a redownload of the latest package database from the best Manjaro repository mirror. This command prevents any output from "dirmngr".

It does not output an error in case the package "gnupg" is not installed on your system. Pacli actually does not use this command but instead downloads and installs these packages manually. This makes it possible to install these packages even if no other packages can be installed on your system due to key database errors.

In this case, connect manually via your browser to your Manjaro repository server, download these packages, and install these packages manually. Pacli will do all of this automatically for you. If this part of Pacli fails, please wait a couple of hours until your Manjaro mirror has synchronized with the main Manjaro repository and offers the latest version of these 3 packages: gnupg, archlinux-keyring, manjaro-keyring.

This will solve problems with your local key database and Manjaro's and Arch's key database. Such problems can occur when new new Arch Linux or Manjaro packagers get added, for example. If your system appears to stop or hang, it searches for entropy in order to generate a new key for you. Alternatively, you can open a browser and do some heavy surfing with a lot of mouse movements, mouse klicks, and keyboard key presses : This can help to generate entropy much faster.

These packages cannot be installed anymore. This command removes all packages from your pacman cache, which are not installed on your system. Afterwards, you need to download all previously downloaded but unsuccessfully installed packages again. Then, all your installed packages are checked against this latest package database. If an updated package is available from the Manjaro repositories, it will get downloaded and installed on your system.