[Box Backup] Client blocked by stale lockfile?

[Ben Summers]

On 28 Feb 2005, at 22:04, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
>> This looks like it's created by the Berkeley DB library. The various 
>> implementations on various platforms seem to cause no end of 
>> problems.
>>
>> You've found another problem caused by it. I'm not sure how to work 
>> around this one though.
>>
>> Which OS, distribution, etc?
>
> I'm reassured that it's not your fault :-)
>
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
> Linux gcc.flexdns.net 2.6.10-1.12_FC2 #1 Wed Feb 2 01:13:49 EST 2005 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> db4-4.2.52-3.1
> glibc-2.3.3-27.1
>
> Anything else you need?
>
> I can reproduce the problem at will, simply by starting bbackupd and 
> killing it with signal 9.

I'm not really sure what to do about this, apart from when starting up, 
deleting everything which isn't an expected name in /var/bbackupd ?

Ben