/usr/bin/pacman: Permission denied after initial pacman -Syu

[Tomblarom]

I used this official guide from msys2.org to install MSYS2. Unfortunately I'm not able to proceed with any further steps of this guide. Sucessfully run pacman -Syu and terminated the terminal:

After that I'm not able to use pacman again:

I already tried:

• reinstalling and rebooting
• running the setup and console as admin
• Removing the lockfile with rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

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OS: Windows 10 - 2004 (19041.1288)
Setup: msys2-x86_64-20210725.exe

[Biswa96]

Make sure that there is no antimalware or antivirus program including Windows Defender is blocking the process.

[Tomblarom]

@Biswa96 which file should I watch out for? Yes I'm in a work environment and we use Cisco Secure Endpoint, but are you sure that's related?

[lazka]

For such trigger happy scanners it's usually best to exclude the whole MSYS2 directory.

[Tomblarom]

Used an excluded folder and it seems, that it's not blocking anymore.

[lazka]

Closing in favor of #199