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

[Anand Babu]

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| 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
| 
| # thunder1000 /root > /usr/sbin/sensors -f
| flushing cache... FAILED
| 
| # thunder1000 /root > cd /var/lib/fish/
| # thunder1000 /var/lib/fish > rm sdr-repo-cache.swp 
| 
| # thunder1000 /var/lib/fish > /usr/sbin/sensors
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This can also happen, if "sensors" is killed abruptly while creating
cache. Then what you did is exactly the right step to follow.

# rm /var/lib/fish/sdr-repo-cache.swp

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