Stale lock files

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sat Jun 27 15:42:26 UTC 2009


Charles Howse writes:

>  What are stale lock files?
>  I've been having them for a few weeks now, they need to go away!
>  
>  root at curly /root# portupgrade -a
>  ** Stale lock file was found. Removed.
>  ** Stale lock file was found. Removed.
>  [...]
>  
>  root at curly /root# portversion -c
>  ** Stale lock file was found. Removed.

	These are related to a (harmless) twitch in a recent version of
ruby.  Updating to the latest version fixed it for me.


					Robert Huff



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