sudo pacman -Su results in errors

[olsonpm]

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when setting up a new instance, I get a couple errors upon running sudo pacman -Su

( 1/13) Creating system user accounts...
Failed to take /etc/passwd lock: Invalid argument
error: command failed to execute correctly
...
( 7/13) Creating temporary files...
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/journal-nocow.conf:26: Failed to resolve specifier: uninitialized /etc/ detected, skipping.
All rules containing unresolvable specifiers will be skipped.
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/shadow.conf:1: Failed to resolve group 'groups': No such process
error: command failed to execute correctly

full command output here

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go through steps as described in docs. Error occurs in the last command at Initialize Keyring

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I expected the output to not contain errors

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Enviroment:

• Windows build number: [e.g. 10.0.17134.228] (Type ver at a Command Prompt)
  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.3930]

• Security Software: [e.g. ESET Internet Security]
  builtin windows defender ? Not sure what this is asking

• WSL version 1/2: [e.g. WSL1]
  Should be wsl 1 but I'm not entirely sure how this is working. For example the command wsl --set-version arch 1 results in

λ wsl --set-version arch 1
Conversion in progress, this may take a few minutes.
The distribution is already the requested version.
Error code: Wsl/Service/WSL_E_VM_MODE_INVALID_STATE

however wsl --version results in

λ wsl --version
WSL version: 2.0.14.0
Kernel version: 5.15.133.1-1
WSLg version: 1.0.59
MSRDC version: 1.2.4677
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19045.3930

so let me know if this is an invalid setup. Working with this has been extremely frustrating.

• ArchWSL version [e.g. 19.3.7.0]
  22.10.16.0

• ArchWSL Installer type zip/appx/other clean/update [e.g. appx update]
  zip

• Launcher version [e.g. 19030700] (Type Arch.exe version at a Command Prompt)
  wsldl2, version 22020900 (amd64)

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this is on an azure windows vm provided by my employer so I'd have to ask for additional details surrounding the vm if that info is needed

[LighghtEeloo]

Try these:

sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman -Syyu

[olsonpm]

here's the full output of those two commands

but the issue is with the original sudo pacman -Syu, i.e. if I rerun sudo pacman -Syu then the output says everything's fine - the same way sudo pacman -Syyu does. However when further trying to use arch, clearly things aren't working properly as I run into a lot of issues such as being unable to install packages. The original hint that things aren't working like they should is with the first run of sudo pacman -Syu