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

[Lowell Gilbert]

Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> writes:

> 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.

Not *completely* harmless; running separate portupgrade processes in
parallel is pretty risky at the moment...