Stale lock files

2009-06-27 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, What are stale lock files? I've been having them for a few weeks now, they need to go away! r...@curly /root# portupgrade -a ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. [...] r...@curly /root# portversion -c ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. # # p5

Re: Stale lock files

2009-06-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:00:24 -0500, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: What are stale lock files? I've been having them for a few weeks now, they need to go away! Lock files are used by several programs to indicate file-wise that they are running. The lock file is created when the program

Stale lock files

2009-06-27 Thread Robert Huff
Charles Howse writes: What are stale lock files? I've been having them for a few weeks now, they need to go away! r...@curly /root# portupgrade -a ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. [...] r...@curly /root# portversion -c ** Stale

Re: Stale lock files

2009-06-27 Thread Charles Howse
On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Robert Huff wrote: Charles Howse writes: What are stale lock files? I've been having them for a few weeks now, they need to go away! r...@curly /root# portupgrade -a ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. [...] r

Re: Stale lock files

2009-06-27 Thread Robert Huff
Charles Howse writes: ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. These are related to a (harmless) twitch in a recent version of ruby. Updating to the latest version fixed it for me. Running 'portversion -c' after 'portupgrade -a' no longer shows any stale lock files. Just