force repository open?

[Bear Giles]

Is there a safe way to force a repository open 
(RepositoryImpl.create(config))?  It looks like some of my unit tests 
are exiting in a way that prevents the shutdown method from getting 
called and this leaves the lock file in place.  For now I'm simply 
deleting it programmatically on startup but of course that's risky.

To answer the obvious question these aren't my unit tests - it's 900+ 
unit tests for other pieces of the application.  We only need the 
repository for two test classes but spring has decided to call the 
factory method anyway.