Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [bugs #8293] cache repo lock improperly deleted??

[Anand Babu]

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| [bugs #8293] Full Item Snapshot:
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| URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8293>
| Project: FreeIPMI
| Submitted by: 0
| On: Thu 03/25/04 at 00:49
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| Summary:  cache repo lock improperly deleted??
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| Original Submission:  # thunder1000 /root > /usr/sbin/sensors
| Creating sensors data repository cache. This may take a while... 
| sensors: error: cache repo locked. One more instance of "sensors"
| creating cache simultaneously! -OR- Lock file
| [/var/lib/fish/sdr-repo-cache.swp] is stale
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| # thunder1000 /root > /usr/sbin/sensors -f
| flushing cache... FAILED
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| # thunder1000 /root > cd /var/lib/fish/
| # thunder1000 /var/lib/fish > rm sdr-repo-cache.swp 
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| # thunder1000 /var/lib/fish > /usr/sbin/sensors
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Did you check for another simultaneous instance of "sensor" creating cache,
before deleting .swp file manually ?

If yes, what you did is exactly expected. 

# rm sdr-repo-cache.swp
and re-run sensors.

-f option deletes only cache. Not .swp file.

Happy Hacking,
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