[Monotone-devel] serving and locking databases

[Hugo Cornelis]

Hi all,


The basic question is as follows:

I sometimes find it useful to start a monotone server on my laptop
using 'mtn serve'.

However, when I interrupt the server process using a kill command to
send it a TERM signal, it leaves the database locked.  Any operation
against the locked database will fail seems.

How can I remove the stale lock and get my database back in a useful state ?


The longer explanation is

that I use monotone from a (complicated) perl script that calls
monotone and other developer tools for different operations on
different software packages (ci, co, pull, sync, tag, etc).  I would
like to add a serve operation to the list such that I can setup
convenient monotone servers for short lapses of time.  However the
stale locks are a serious problem.  This is part of a software
developer collaboration suite, and solving the stale lock problem is
critical for its useful operation.

All help appreciated.

Thanks,


-- 

Hugo


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