Mercurial stuck "waiting for lock"

Question

Got a bluescreen in windows while cloning a mercurial repository.

After reboot, I now get this message for almost all hg commands:

c:\src>hg commit waiting for lock on repository c:\src\McVrsServer held by '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' interrupted!

Google is no help.

Any tips?

Answer 1

This seems to resolve it, but don't know if it is safe:

Delete the repository file: .hg/store/lock

Answer 2

Not to punt here, but you might just ask around in the Mercurial IRC channel - #mercurial on irc.freenode.net.

Answer 3

If the locked repo was the original, I can't imagine it was modifying it to clone it, so it was only preventing you from changing it in the middle and messing up the clone. It should be fine after removing the lock.

The new cloned copy (if it was a local clone) could be in any sort of malformed state, though, so you should throw it out and start it over. (If it was a remote clone, I would hope it failed and already threw out the incomplete copy.)

Answer 4

Removing .hg/wlock (also) works.