[Xapian-discuss] DatabaseLockError: Unable to acquire database write lock

[Alexander Lind]

Perhaps an application of yours that acquires a writelock (which is a 
file in the xapian index directory) and then crashes, or is simply run 
concurrently as your other program is causing this?

Alec

tata 668 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Xapian on CentOS 4, with the PHP bindings. I'm using it 
> without any modifications or specials flags ("./configure 
> --prefix=/usr/local")
>
> I sometimes get a "DatabaseLockError: Unable to acquire database write 
> lock" when trying to write to a database. But I'm not able to 
> reproduce the conditions for this error to occure.
>
> Are there some known situations that can trigger that error?
> What are the way to deal with it?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Julien
>
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