[Gnu-arch-users] unable to acquire revision lock

[Gurupartap Davis]

First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with the .htaccess and 
deleted file issues.

Now I've got another problem:  I was testing the permissions of my 
archive directory by committing a change as another user.
Both users are members of the group 'dev' and I recursivly chgrp'd and 
chmod'd my {archives} directory so group 'dev' has write access.  I 
successfully committed with the other user, so all seemed well.

Well, after editing several files (as myself now) I wanted to check in 
my changes, but now I get an error 'arch_commit: unable to acquire 
revision lock'  I looked and saw there was a lock set for revision 
patch-1 by the other user.  I couldn't figure a way around it, so I 
eventually deleted the directory (in the {archives} tree).  Thing is, I 
still get the error now, and I've got no idea what I may have messed up 
or where to look now.  why does arch think there is a lock set?  or more 
to the point, why can't I set the lock needed to commit a change?

Should I maybe start over with a new project, or is this fixable?