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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 20:48:18
Message-Id: 200805012247.54030.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug? by reader@newsguy.com
1 On Thursday 01 May 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2
3 > waiting for lock on
4 > /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile
5 >
6 > And has been there a good while.
7 >
8 > Looking at the bugs I see it mentioned but says it was fixed quite
9 > sometime ago.
10 >
11 > Any suggestions of how to get past this item and on with updating
12 > world?
13
14 Ctrl-C to kill the emerge and
15 rm /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile
16
17 then try again
18
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20 Alan McKinnon
21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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