Re: [Duplicity-talk] fix or avoid "Error accessing possibly locked file"

[Ian Barton]

On 21/06/10 03:07, Tom Roche wrote:
> I've been using duplicity pretty happily for a few months. My main
> remaining problem is the errors
>
> > Error accessing possibly locked file /home/me/.emacs.d/tlrDesktop.el
> > Error accessing possibly locked file /home/me/.gnupg/random_seed
> > Error accessing possibly locked file /home/me/thunderbird/profiles.ini
>
> which I always get on those 3 (and only those 3) files, which seem
> utterly unrelated to each other or to duplicity. How to fix or avoid
> these errors? FWIW
>
> * I close all user apps before running duplicity from a single
>    gnome-terminal.
>
> * I installed duplicity from the standard ubuntu repository:
>
> $ duplicity --version
> duplicity 0.5.18
Have you tried looking for stale lock files (.flock) in the relevant 
directories.

Ian.