Everything works now. I was getting the error while using the Blackbox window manager, but when I went back to look at Gnome later in the day, the problem mysteriously rectified itself.
I was able to start the spooled slrn just fine in Gnome. I guess going back to Gnome let it take care of what ever it had to do? On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:32:24AM +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: > > slrn fatal error: > > slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file. > > > For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What > > can I do to fix this? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
