Re: bazaar: "unable to obtain lock"

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
>Trying to commit right now produces the following message:
>
>Unable to obtain lock
>sftp://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/lock
>held by bob@gnu.org on host benthic [process #13025]
>locked 6 hours, 10 minutes ago
>Will continue to try until 18:17:32, unless you press Ctrl-C
>If you're sure that it's not being modified, use bzr break-lock
>sftp://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/lock

I don't know how often this is likely to happen, nor exactly what
circumstances cause it (some kind of uncompleted transaction?).  I
assume if bob confirms he's not active, then you can break the lock.
But still, if this happens a lot, it's going to be very annoying.

Does anyone know if bzr+ssh:// access would avoid this?  That's the
access method the bzr developers recommend; the Savannah ticket about it
is https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?107077.

-Karl