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Subject: Re: portupgrade/ruby issue? (Stale lock file was found. Removed.)
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Lowell Gilbert 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.
>  >>  
>  >>  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...

	When was it officually cleared to do that?  Last I knew it was
"do at your own risk".


				Robert Huff