Stale lock files

[Charles Howse]

On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Robert Huff wrote:

>
> 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.

Thanks Robert and Polytropon,
Running 'portversion -c' after 'portupgrade -a' no longer shows any  
stale lock files.
Just wondering...is there any utility to find and remove these things?
Maybe a reboot?