portupgrade/ruby issue? (Stale lock file was found. Removed.)

[Robert Huff]

Tobias lott writes:

>  > After recent massive ports update (I think ruby was touch and
>  > probably portupgrade too) I started getting seemingly sporadic "Stale
>  > lock file was found. Removed." messages. What's interesting is that
>  > those messages are produced on stdout, not stderr.
>  > 
>  > Sporadic - because they appear when there are no parallel execution
>  > of any portupgrade tools (or any other package/port related tools).
>  > They appear in situations wheere they never appeared before.
>  > 
>  > I see this on two stable/7 systems.
>  
>  Got the same on five 7-Stable Machines.

	And on -Current from April.  So, not a function of the OS version.
	Mine happens every time I run portupgrade/portversion, even
when prior runs completed successfully.
	It seems harmless, but it would be Really Nice if it were
fixed.


				Robert Huff