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Postponed: Waiting to acquire slot directory lock

I have an arp unit showing the above status. It has an earlier deadline by over a day than one of the Rosetta units I am running. I am only running them because I cannot report WCG on this machine - that is another thread.

I have tried suspending a running unit and all Ready to Start, but that doesn't force it to run.

Has anyone any suggestions, please?

Mike

[Feb 20, 2021 3:12:33 PM]

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Re: Postponed: Waiting to acquire slot directory lock

Have you tried a reboot?

From the BOINC Wiki:

"Postponed: waiting to acquire lock

This message means that a previous task is still occupying the lock file in the slot directory. BOINC cannot continue with this task until that slot directory has been vacated. Try to reboot, that usually stirs things loose. Used in BOINC 7."

If that doesn't work, there may be a file in the slot called boinc_lockfile. If you delete that and reboot, it may solve the issue.

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[Feb 20, 2021 3:39:03 PM]

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Re: Postponed: Waiting to acquire slot directory lock

Many thanks, Falconet. Restarting cleared that problem. I am still prevented from downloading WCG due to the http problem in my other thread.
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[Feb 20, 2021 7:06:57 PM]

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Re: Postponed: Waiting to acquire slot directory lock

Hopefully uplinger solves that soon.

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