Not sure if our installation is the same or not, but we are also using Tomcat. I had a similiar problem last week, it occurred after Tomcat went through a hard restart and some software errors had the website hammered.
I found the lock file in /usr/local/tomcat/temp/ using locate. According to the README.txt this is a directory created for the JVM within Tomcat. So it is a system temp directory, just inside Tomcat. Hope that helps, -Gus -----Original Message----- From: Kevin A. Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:01 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: 'Lock obtain timed out' even though NO locks exist... James Dunn wrote: >Which version of lucene are you using? In 1.2, I >believe the lock file was located in the index >directory itself. In 1.3, it's in your system's tmp >folder. > > Yes... 1.3 and I have a script that removes the locks from both dirs... This is only one process so it's just fine to remove them. >Perhaps it's a permission problem on either one of >those folders. Maybe your process doesn't have write >access to the correct folder and is thus unable to >create the lock file? > > I thought about that too... I have plenty of disk space so that's not an issue. Also did a chmod -R so that should work too. >You can also pass lucene a system property to increase >the lock timeout interval, like so: > >-Dorg.apache.lucene.commitLockTimeout=60000 > >or > >-Dorg.apache.lucene.writeLockTimeout=60000 > > I'll give that a try... good idea. Kevin -- Please reply using PGP. http://peerfear.org/pubkey.asc NewsMonster - http://www.newsmonster.org/ Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412 IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]