Lock on Registry

[Rainer Müller]

On 2012-03-17 22:38 , Sarma Tangirala wrote:
> I was using macports with upgrade and realize it had started to install
> all of the available ports.

What was the exact command you were running?

> I stopped the process and I was wondering
> what is the best way to uninstall these unwanted ports. Also, I stopped
> the upgrade when it was building a package and I suppose a lock was used
> on the registry. When I try to uninstall a specific package, it stays on
> "Waiting for lock on /opt/local/var/macports/registry/.registry.lock
> " for quite a while. Any suggestions on what I should do now?

The lock is cleared as soon as the port process exits. Check for a still
running port command; this would be a tclsh process.

Rainer