Ransomware-Like Behavior with lockfile.DB During Conda Transaction Execution

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Issue

When using Conda to remove packages, the "Executing transaction" report

Installed packages

conda env list

# conda environments:
#
py39env                C:\Users\****\.conda\envs\py39env
base                   C:\Users\****3\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI492002
                     * D:\ProgramData\miniforge

Environment info

conda env list

# conda environments:
#
py39env                C:\Users\****\.conda\envs\py39env
base                   C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI492002
                     * D:\ProgramData\miniforge


(base) D:\workspace>conda info

     active environment : D:\ProgramData\miniforge
    active env location : D:\ProgramData\miniforge
            shell level : 2
       user config file : C:\Users\****\.condarc
 populated config files : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI521802\.condarc
                          D:\ProgramData\miniforge\.condarc
          conda version : 24.11.0
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.12.8.final.0
                 solver : libmamba (default)
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=x86_64_v4
                          __conda=24.11.0=0
                          __win=0=0
       base environment : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI521802  (read only)
      conda av data dir : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI521802\etc\conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
          package cache : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI521802\pkgs
                          C:\Users\****\.conda\pkgs
                          C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       envs directories : C:\Users\****\.conda\envs
                          C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI521802\envs
                          C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
               platform : win-64
             user-agent : conda/24.11.0 requests/2.32.3 CPython/3.12.8 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19045 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/24.9.0 libmambapy/1.5.11
          administrator : False
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False