{"id":781,"date":"2007-01-23T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/bitkeeper-unlock-s-magic\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T03:51:53","slug":"bitkeeper-unlock-s-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/bitkeeper-unlock-s-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"bitkeeper unlock -s magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever get something like this:<\/p>\n

bk clone -lq ndb bug25567<\/p>\n

clone: unable to readlock \/home\/stewart\/Documents\/MySQL\/5.1\/ndb<\/p>\n

then try this:<\/p>\n

bk unlock -s<\/p>\n

to remove stale locks.<\/p>\n

I have no idea how anybody is meant to come to the command from the error message… blindly guessing ‘bk help unlock’ worked for me though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ever get something like this: bk clone -lq ndb bug25567 clone: unable to readlock \/home\/stewart\/Documents\/MySQL\/5.1\/ndb then try this: bk unlock -s to remove stale locks. I have no idea how anybody is meant to come to the command … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-bitkeeper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-cB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/06\/effective-bk-usage\/","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":0},"title":"effective bk usage","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-01-06","format":false,"excerpt":"(inspired by jimw talking about it on Planet MySQL) I take a bit of a different approach... 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