Subject: can't open folder lock message

From: Bruce Berris <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Mar 1995 05:38:13 GMT

Everything worked fine until I moved my installation to another drive.
Now pine v3.89 running on a linux box v1.1.94, gives me a message
"can't open folder lock, access is read only" and then "folder is
open by another process".  I ran ps and saw nothing using the folder.
The help file mentions this problem and suggests another pine is using
the mail folder, but this is not the case here.  My file permissions
seem to be ok.  Anyone else tried to move their installation?
Thanks for any ideas to fix this.
Bruce Berris
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew J. Hess)
Date: 6 Mar 1995 16:32:19 GMT

I had a similar experience when I logged on without quiting pine 
beforehand.  One of the messages gave a process number, and when I typed 
"kill (number)" from the unix prompt, I was able to use pine normally 
again.  Ps didn't show the process for me, either.  

Wow.  I can give advice!
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     Andrew Hess			    American Language Institute,
     [email-masked] 		   	   New York University -
     http:www/nyu/edu/pages/hess/cities.html 	   City University of NY

Bruce Berris ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Everything worked fine until I moved my installation to another drive.
: Now pine v3.89 running on a linux box v1.1.94, gives me a message
: "can't open folder lock, access is read only" and then "folder is
: open by another process".  I ran ps and saw nothing using the folder.
: The help file mentions this problem and suggests another pine is using
: the mail folder, but this is not the case here.  My file permissions
: seem to be ok.  Anyone else tried to move their installation?
: Thanks for any ideas to fix this.
: Bruce Berris
: [email-masked]

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From: Kevin Yeung <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 20:58:45 +0800 (HKT)

> again.  Ps didn't show the process for me, either.  

Try "ps agux|grep <insert your username here>" instead.  Hope this helps.

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Kevin Yeung
email: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Glenn E. Lanier)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 17:23:06 GMT

On 8 Mar 1995 05:08:14 -0800, in comp.mail.pine, [email-masked] 
 (parading as Kevin Yeung) managed to electronically scribble:

% On 6 Mar 1995, Andrew J. Hess wrote:

% > I had a similar experience when I logged on without quiting pine 
% > beforehand.  One of the messages gave a process number, and when I typed 
% > "kill (number)" from the unix prompt, I was able to use pine normally 
% > again.  Ps didn't show the process for me, either.  

% Try "ps agux|grep <insert your username here>" instead.  Hope this helps.

Sometimes, kill -9 pid must be used.

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