[IRCServices Coding] lockfile problem..

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Mon Feb 24 09:15:21 PST 2003


     Fixed, thanks for the report.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>Hi,
>
>Just upgraded to 5.0.11.  My previous problems have been solved, but now
>something else is not working..
>
>If I kill ircservices' uplink it tries to write to its databases but fails
>with this log entry:
>
>[Feb 23 12:35:43 2003] warning: unable to lock data directory, not updating databases: Undefined error: 0
>[Feb 23 12:35:43 2003] Read error from server: Connection reset by peer
>
>
>Looking in the libdir there's a .lock file with no permissions:
>
>----------   1 blabber  irc             0 Feb 23 12:35 .lock
>
>
>Starting it all up again and trying the same thing results in failure of
>course:
>
>[Feb 23 12:29:42 2003] warning: data directory is locked, not updating databases
>
>Lockfile needs to be removed manually...
>
>
>When performing a manual update via operserv this doesn't happen.  Neither
>when shutting down ircservices gracefully.  Only when the uplink dies
>unexpectedly.
>
>
>Regards,
>Aragon
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