Re: PR Submission (Change of state) gets locked

[Mel Hatzis]

On 01/26/2003 10:50 PM, Chandra Ramesh submitted:

> Hello,
>
>         We are having Gnats 3.113.1 on a RED HAT 7.3 Linux OS.
>
>         When we edit a PR for a state change and click on the "click 
> here to submit the changes" button,
>         we are getting an error saying:
>
>         "Your problem report changes have not been sent"
>         problem report Config/6 is being edited by Ramesh.
>
>         In the above error "Config" is a category and 6 is the PR 
> number assigned.
>         It is me (Ramesh) who is changing the state and when I submit 
> the changes, I am getting the above error.
>         In the "locks" directory, there is a "6.lock" file which gets 
> created.
>
>         I am running the "gnatsd" daemon through xinetd.
>
>         How can I solve this problem? Please let me know.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ramesh Chandra
It appears that you have a stale lock file (the 6.lock file in the locks 
directory)
that is preventing you from submitting updates. Delete the lock file and try
your PR update again.

Stale lock files can result if an edit is abnormally terminated....say, 
by killing
an edit-pr process during an edit.

Hope this helps.

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Mel Hatzis