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UpTheCreek
UpTheCreek

Reputation: 32391

Can't push to mercurial (bitbucket) repo 'waiting for lock on repository'

I'm currently getting this message whenever I try to push to one of our repositories:

waiting for lock on repository <repo_path> held by '<hostname>:4228'

The hostname is the PC I'm trying to push from, and the port number changes each time I try.

I've searched and found this answer which suggests deleting the file .hg/store/lock but this file is not present on my computer.

Interestingly I see the lock file appear when I run the command, and see it removed again when I cancel the operation with ctrl-C. It's almost like the hg process doesn't recognise that it is its own lock.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1181

Answers (2)

Umberto
Umberto

Reputation: 2060

Go to your local .hg directory and delete the wlock file.

Upvotes: 0

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328674

Seems like there is a stale file in the Bitbucket server.

Contact the support of the server and forward them the error message. Or just try again. Chances are that they have a cleanup process which removes stale locks after a timeout.

Upvotes: 1

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