RCS File ... is in use

From http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/UnableToCreateTempDirectory:

Now we are able to edit topics, but this is the error: /usr/bin/ci -q -l -m'none' -t-none -w'EmptyPages' /home/venus/public_html/wiki/data/MT/WebHome.txt 2>&1 ci: RCS file /home/venus/public_html/wiki/data/MT/WebHome.txt,v is in use

The changes go through and are saved on the page, though. It does this on every page I tried. Any advice on this is appreciated a lot!

-- BrennaCook - 15 Apr 2003

This looks somewhat related to RCSLockErrors - did you re-lock the built-in topics that come with TWiki (including the _default directory used to create new webs)? If not, see TWikiInstallationGuide.

-- RichardDonkin - 17 Apr 2003

Yes, it appears that deleting those files that were generated with a comma in front of the name took care of it!!! Yay, thank you for the wonderful support!

-- BrennaCook - 19 Apr 2003

-- Contributors: MartinCleaver - 05 Jan 2007

I just ran in to this on one of my production servers. Periodically such files can foul up an installation, the error message that gets shown to the user hides this message, it was only when I tried to do an RCS operation to it on the command line did I get the real error message and understand what to do.

This search showed people have talked about this in the past but I've not seen a solution. Maybe an admin panel interface to highlight such likely error conditions?

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