Re: Lock file error

On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 9:50:33 AM UTC-5 Tõivo Leedjärv wrote:

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 14:56, Patrick Giasson <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> unison -testServer a.tmp ssh://server/a.tmp 
> Fatal error: cannot synchronize more than one remote root 

I think your default profile is interfering here. 
If you don't specify any profile name then settings are read from a 
profile called "default" (in a file .unison/default.prf). The end 
result is that there are now four roots specified: two in the default 
profile, two on the command line. 

To get around this either (temporarily, if you want) rename the 
default.prf or create a new empty file (for example noprofile.prf) and 
then invoke it as follows: 
unison -testServer noprofile a.tmp ssh://server/a.tmp 


You are right. I renamed my default.prf to somethingelse.prf and the 
-testServer command ran successfully:

Unison 2.53.3 (ocaml 4.14.1): Contacting server...
Connected [//client//home/SYNDICAT/user/a.tmp -> 
//server//home/SYNDICAT/user/a.tmp]

However, the following command failed with the lock file error:


$unison a.tmp ssh://server/a.tmp 
Unison 2.53.3 (ocaml 4.14.1): Contacting server...
Connected [//client//home/SYNDICAT/user/a.tmp -> 
//server//home/SYNDICAT/user/a.tmp]
 
Looking for changes
Fatal error: Warning: the archives are locked.  
If no other instance of unison is running, the locks should be removed.
The file /home/SYNDICAT/user/lk67e9fd1791d7565afcd5570b891953d0 on host 
server should be deleted
Please delete lock files as appropriate and try again.



Any idea?

Patrick

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