A lockfile seems to have been create yesterday and not released - possibly due to a crash. The message I see in a console is
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 6678 - probably dead) ...
There's no such lockfile in /var/lock. I can't see this lockfile clearing itself, after all this time and a complete reboot, so how can I find it? I've tried 'locate .lck' and 'locate .lock' but can't see anything likely.
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
A lockfile seems to have been create yesterday and not released - possibly due to a crash. The message I see in a console is
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 6678 - probably dead) ...
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.html#q6.11
"6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
A previous instance of gpg has most likely exited abnormally and left a lock file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them. "
On Friday 03 November 2006 19:51, William Hooper wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
A lockfile seems to have been create yesterday and not released - possibly due to a crash. The message I see in a console is
gpg: waiting for lock (held by 6678 - probably dead) ...
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.html#q6.11
"6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
A previous instance of gpg has most likely exited abnormally and left a lock file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them. "
Thanks, William. Actually, I found them a short while ago, but it's not that simple. I logged out to give gpg a clean start, but found that it spawned lockfiles then took 99% cpu time, getting no further and I had to kill it.
I've even tried removing gpg and all related packages, then reinstalling them, but the problem's still there.
Anne