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Erick Erickson commented on LUCENE-7959:
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I want to track this so I assigned it to myself but would be _very_ happy if
someone else took it.
> Throw more helpful error messages from failures in obtainFSLock, at least in
> NativeFSLockFactory
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>
> Key: LUCENE-7959
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7959
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Erick Erickson
> Assignee: Erick Erickson
> Priority: Minor
>
> This is one of those small changes that would save a lot of pain for end
> users. Currently, any failure to obtain the lock reports:
> "Lock held by this virtual machine: " + realPath
> or
> "Lock held by another program: " + realPath
> Let's say that there's a permissions issue with the index dir. This is an
> unhelpful/misleading error message (recent user's list discussion about this).
> The problem is that when we try to create the lock file we swallow _all_
> exceptions, not just the one we don't care about (Thanks [~elyograg] for
> pointing this out).
> {{
> try {
> Files.createFile(lockFile);
> } catch (IOException ignore) {
> // we must create the file to have a truly canonical path.
> // if it's already created, we don't care. if it cant be created, it
> will fail below.
> }
> }}
> It fails later with one of the above error messages.
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