[KinoSearch] index is locked by 'locks/write.lock' in KinoSearch-0.30_11

[Marvin Humphrey]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:29:44PM -0500, dapatrick at pobox.com wrote:

> I'm using the latest developer release of KinoSearch and am receiving the error
> 
> index is locked by 'locks/write.lock', kino_Indexer_init at core/KinoSearch/Index/Indexer.c line 92

The contents of this error message may be inaccurate, which is a bug in
KinoSearch.  If that lockfile fails to be written, you get that error message
regardless of *why* the lockfile failed to be written.
 
> This occurs with the following very simple code:
> 
> 	my $indexer = KinoSearch::Index::Indexer->new(
> 		index    => 'data/kino',
> 		schema   => Foo::Schema->new(),
> 		create   => 1,
> 		truncate => 1,
> 	);
> 
> (Foo::Schema is a subclass of KinoSearch::Plan::Schema.)
> 
> Am I doing something incorrectly? It seems that the error occurs as soon as
> I construct the Indexer before I've done any actual work.

You might be getting that error because of a permissions problem, or because
"data/" doesn't exist and KinoSearch won't recursively create directories when
creating an index, or something else.

I'll look into fixing this error message problem.  At the very least, I'll
change it to "Failed to aquire lock 'locks/write.lock'" so that it no longer
suggests that the file exists when it may not.

Marvin Humphrey