Pamac update: unable to lock database, Failed to synchronize databases

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Transcript below pretty much sums it up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[brian@framework ~]$ pamac update
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
unable to lock database
Failed to synchronize databases
Warning: python-pyqt5: local (5.15.6-7.1) is newer than extra (5.15.6-7)
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.
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sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
and update again

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If you want to deal with that, then upgrade as follows:

pamac upgrade --enable-downgrade

Yes, I know this has nothing to do with the original question.

Also, if you leave it, it should eventually catch up and won’t be a problem. You can choose to leave it as is, no worries if everything works correctly.

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This seems to be the stock answer online when you Google. Unfortunately that file does not exist.

[brian@framework ~]$ ls -al /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/pacman/db.lck': No such file or directory
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Try:

pamac update --force-refresh

Because, from the man page:

pamac upgrade,update [options]

--force-refresh
force the refresh of the databases

Edit:

Combined with my previous post, I’m taking an educated guess that it’ll be something like this:

pamac upgrade --enable-downgrade --force-refresh
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This worked. Thanks!

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