mamba install RuntimeError: LockFile error. Aborting.

[buer19970329]

ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1082, in __call__
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/mamba.py", line 935, in exception_converter
    raise e
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/mamba.py", line 929, in exception_converter
    exit_code = _wrapped_main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/mamba.py", line 887, in _wrapped_main
    result = do_call(args, p)
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/mamba.py", line 750, in do_call
    exit_code = install(args, parser, "install")
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/mamba.py", line 497, in install
    index = load_channels(pool, channels, repos)
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/utils.py", line 129, in load_channels
    index = get_index(
  File "/home/konglab/anaconda3/envs/mine39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mamba/utils.py", line 110, in get_index
    is_downloaded = dlist.download(api.MAMBA_DOWNLOAD_FAILFAST)
RuntimeError: LockFile error. Aborting.

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conda install worked well

[jmague]

exact same issue here... I didn't try conda, but sudoing worked well to.

[jonashaag]

Are you on a weird network filesystem?

[magcurly]

It's quite weird that during loading the repositories, the others won't move any further when one of the progress bars reached to the end. After a period of time, this error will show up. conda install works perfectly. I agree that it might be some setting problems because this error only appears in certain nodes.

[pyrevo]

Guess I had a similar issue:

# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1129, in __call__
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_env/cli/main.py", line 80, in do_call
        exit_code = getattr(module, func_name)(args, parser)
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/notices/core.py", line 72, in wrapper
        return_value = func(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_env/cli/main_create.py", line 156, in execute
        result[installer_type] = installer.install(prefix, pkg_specs, args, env)
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mamba/mamba_env.py", line 55, in mamba_install
        index = load_channels(pool, channel_urls, repos, prepend=False)
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mamba/utils.py", line 129, in load_channels
        index = get_index(
      File "/opt/sw/bioinfo-tools/sources/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mamba/utils.py", line 110, in get_index
        is_downloaded = dlist.download(api.MAMBA_DOWNLOAD_FAILFAST)
    RuntimeError: LockFile error. Aborting.

It got solved after running conda clean --all (from the admin account).