Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Hostetter
: 1) The FAQ has been moved to the Wiki, so feel free to stick it in : there. yeah ... i just wanted to give people a chance to chime in with weird ways locks are used in case i wasn't aware of something. : 2) http://www.lucenebook.com/search?query=unlock ah ... yes. The really pitiful thing is

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Hostetter
: What about a shutdown hook? Interesting idea, at the moment the file is created on disk, the FSDirectory could add a shutdown hook that checked for the existence of the file and if it's still there (implying that the Lock owner failed without releasing the lock) it can forcably remove it. Of co

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Eh, that exactly :) When I read my emails in reverse order --- Chris Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about a shutdown hook? > > Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() { > public void run() { /* whatever */ } > }); > > see also > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onja

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I didn't pay full attention to this thread, but it sounds like somebody may be interested in RuntimeShutdownHook (or some similar name) as a place to try to release the locks. Otis --- Joseph Ottinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Doug Cutting wrote: > > > Joseph Ottinger wr

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Lamprecht
What about a shutdown hook? Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() { public void run() { /* whatever */ } }); see also http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/26/shutdownhook.html On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:21:42 -0800, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Ottinger w

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Joseph Ottinger
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Doug Cutting wrote: > Joseph Ottinger wrote: > > As one for whom the question's come up recently, I'd say that locks need > > to be terminated gracefully, instead. I've noticed a number of cases where > > the locks get abandoned in exceptional conditions, which is almost exact

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Doug Cutting
Joseph Ottinger wrote: As one for whom the question's come up recently, I'd say that locks need to be terminated gracefully, instead. I've noticed a number of cases where the locks get abandoned in exceptional conditions, which is almost exactly what you don't want. The problem is that this is hard

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Joseph Ottinger
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Chris Hostetter wrote: > 2) it might be a good idea to add a static utility method for cleanly > removing all locks (or all lokcs of a particular type) on an index given a > Directory. Javadocs would indicate this is an "Expert" method which > should only be used in code desi

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hello, 1) The FAQ has been moved to the Wiki, so feel free to stick it in there. 2) http://www.lucenebook.com/search?query=unlock Otis --- Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I'm getting > : Lock obtain timed out. > : > : I was developing and forgot to close the writer. How do I

Re: How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I'm getting : Lock obtain timed out. : : I was developing and forgot to close the writer. How do I recover? I : killed the program, put the close in, but it won't let me open again. if you are using FSDirectory then a lock file was put onto your disk in the directory returned by... Syst

How do I unlock?

2005-01-11 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm getting Lock obtain timed out. I was developing and forgot to close the writer. How do I recover? I killed the program, put the close in, but it won't let me open again. Thanks, Jim. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT