Re: bazaar: "unable to obtain lock"

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

bob@gnu.org (Robert J. Chassell) writes:

>     >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
>
> That was me.  (I don't connect to the Internet very often.)  I was
> trying to download for about four hours this morning, but not for 6
> hours.  It was clearly something wrong.
>
> This afternoon, I moved my /usr/local/src/emacs/ directory to
> /usr/local/src/emacs-09dec29 and restarted, following the
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs document exactly.  I
> gave up after a few hours, after getting 181780 kilobytes according to
> `du -s'.  According to the progress meter, the download was less than
> half done.  I have an old laptop with a half gigabyte of RAM.  The
> wireless connection I use might be broken (I cannot fix it -- it is
> not mine, but is the only way I can connect.  It works for other
> connections, as you can see:  I am SSH'd to fp.gnu.org to mail this
> message, but am writing conveniently on a different Emacs on my home
> machine.)

Try lowering your mtu on that connection, something like

ifconfig wlan0 mtu 950

or so.

-- 
David Kastrup