Re: Dead unbreakable bzr locks?

[Stefan Monnier]

> $ bzr push
> Using saved push location: bzr+ssh://address@hidden/emacs/trunk/
> Unable to obtain lock  held by Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> on vcs.savannah.gnu.org (process #29533), acquired 1 hour, 41 minutes ago.
> See "bzr help break-lock" for more.
> bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "(remote lock)": 
> bzr+ssh://address@hidden/emacs/

> and I can't break it with 'bzr break-lock bzr+ssh://address@hidden/emacs',
> even with --force.

> This happens from time to time. Why, and how to avoid it?

I generally just use "bzr break-lock" without any further argument,
which seems to check the remote site as well (after checking the local
locks).  But that's with a bound branch,

You might also try "bzr break-lock
bzr+ssh://address@hidden/emacs/trunk/".


        Stefan