Cannot acquire lock on Windows 7 when configuring my details

[Amir Eldor]

I've just installed the Bazaar Explorer on my Windows 7, tried to setup my configuration details such as my name and email and once I clicked 'ok' it hung up and gave me a nice error dialog that wanted me to post the error on Launchpad. So here it is!

The traceback:

bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "(local)": file:///C:/Users/Amir%20Eldor/AppData/Roaming/bazaar/2.0/lock

Must be something with the space (%20) in my Windows username.

[Amir Eldor (amireldor)]

Hmm, well it DID set up my changes to the name, name and editor despite the crash.

The editor path I used is: C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

That looks like a problem in bzr core for me.

[Stephane Tremblay (stephane-tremblay-2)]

I also have this problem, even though there are no spaces or %20 in my user name.

I can't get bazaar to work correctly in Windows 7 for the life of me. I keep getting errors saying that it "Could not acquire lock "(local)": file:///c:/..."

Any GUI tools freeze up and crash for the exact same reason as yours.

Could not acquire lock "(local)": file:///c:/Users/s.../AppData/Roaming/bazaar/2.0/lock

I need this to work because that's what we use at my job and so far I can't collaborate my work unless I use cygwin which doesn't have all the fancy GUI tools.

[Martin Packman (gz)]

Can one of you attach the full traceback please? The gui tools will give it to you if you hit the expander, and then you can copy/paste those details here.

[Amir Eldor (amireldor)]

These are the full details of the error. It also happens to me under cygwin and cmd.exe in addition to the GUI tools.

[Samuel Findlay (sfindlay)]

I think I have the same problem. It only started recently, but now I cannot commit at all.
Win7 x64, have tried 2.5.1 and 2.6b1

Thu 2014-02-13 14:42:40 +1100
0.084 bazaar version: 2.5.1
0.084 bzr arguments: [u'cism', u'v0.8 Added *.sdr files, LAN Updater']
0.085 looking for plugins in C:/Users/Sam/AppData/Roaming/bazaar/2.0/plugins
0.085 looking for plugins in C:/Program Files (x86)/Bazaar/plugins
0.143 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'cp850'
0.204 opening working tree 'C:/Users/Sam/Documents/IT Support/AHK Dev/Projects/Check SDR33/source'
29.337 Transferred: 0kB (0.0kB/s r:0kB w:0kB)
29.337 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 920, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1131, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 673, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 695, in run
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 136, in run_simple
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 166, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 3678, in run
  File "bzrlib\decorators.pyo", line 216, in write_locked
  File "bzrlib\workingtree_4.pyo", line 646, in lock_write
  File "bzrlib\branch.pyo", line 2529, in lock_write
  File "bzrlib\lockable_files.pyo", line 164, in lock_write
  File "bzrlib\lockdir.pyo", line 674, in lock_write
  File "bzrlib\lockdir.pyo", line 642, in wait_lock
LockContention: Could not acquire lock "(local)": file:///C:/Users/Sam/Documents/IT%20Support/AHK%20Dev/Projects/Check%20SDR33/source/

[Ravi Wallau (raviaw)]

Removing the "held" directory under the lock folder presented in the error message fixed the problem for me.