[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Problems in installing sugar

Sam Parkinson sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 18:11:06 EDT 2014


Hi

Is there a file '.lock' in your sugar build folder?  (Use 'ls -a')

If there is try removing it.

Sam
On Jun 16, 2014 7:17 PM, "Abhay Sibal" <abhaysibal2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
>  I am installing sugar on my laptop (HP 6730b 4GB RAM) on an Ubuntu 12.10.
>
>  As mentioned on the developer site :
>
>  *http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html
> <http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html>*.
>
>  I am following the steps mentioned.
>
> However, after executing this command:
>
>
> *./osbuild pull*
>
>
> the following line is printed:
>
> abhay at ubuntu:~/InternWork/sugar-build$ ./osbuild pull
> *Another osbuild instance is running.*
>
> I tried *restarting* my computer and also used the following command:
>
> sudo rm -Rf sugar-build/
>
> to reinstall the package, but it did not help. The problem seems to be
> somewhere in a lockfile , which is not getting deleted.
>
> --Reffering lines 451-453 in the code:
>
>
>
> *if not check_lock():        print("Another osbuild instance is
> running.")        return False*
>
> Please guide me on this!
>
> Thanks,
> Abhay
>
>
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