OS X Partition Locked under 0.9.68

J. De Salvo mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:06:08 -0500


Hi, Samuel and list--

Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I don't know what to look for to 
unlock the stale process. A "ps -aux" shows nothing unusual. What 
files/devices/directories do I need to look at to check for a stale 
process?

Thanks, again, for your help,

--Joe 

On March 12, Samuel Rydh wrote:

>Nothing in MOL has changed with respect to volume locks.

>The error message above indicates that the volume is locked by an
>advisory lock [flock()]. Perhaps you have a stale mol process
>that owns that lock? The file (well device, in this case) should
>be unlocked automatically if the process owning the lock
>is terminated.

>Regards,

>/Samuel