Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:13:37 -0400 From: Chad Brown <freecsb@gmail.com> To: Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stale lockfile Message-ID: <90f0a2770906031713t52da65e8we5bc0f5a73a881b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A26F16C.2010805@webrz.net> References: <4A26F16C.2010805@webrz.net>
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net> wrote: > Can someone tell me what this file exactly is for? > Got the message 'Stale lock file found. Removed' running 'portupgrade -a'. > > thanks, > Jos Chrispijn > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The point is to indicate that a process (e.g., portupgrade) is currently running. Multiple instances of portupgrade running at the same time might do some strange things. As W. Puchar says, portupgrade detected the lock file (from a previous unfinished instance), but there were no current portupgrade processes running. Thus, the lockfile was "stale", and was deleted.
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