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:srcMcVrsServer held by 'x00x00x00x00x00
x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00'
interrupted!

Google is no help.

Any tips?

Answer 1

When "waiting for lock on repository", delete the repository file: .hg/wlock (or it may be in .hg/store/lock)

When deleting the lock file, you must make sure nothing else is accessing the repository. (If the lock is a string of zeros or blank, this is almost certainly true).