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Fixing rtorrent: Could not lock session directory

by Keith on June 11, 2009

rTorrent is a very cool torrent client used in *nix based systems. I have been using it on my Apple TV now for a few weeks with very good results.

Recently the weather here in St. Louis has been stormy and it knocked out my electricity. When the power came back on, I couldn’t get rTorrent started and I was getting this error:

rtorrent: Could not lock session directory: “/Users/frontrow/.rtorrent_session/”, held by “appletv:+189″.

The fix was pretty easy, I went into the .rtorrent_session directory and removed the rtorrent.lock file.

cd ~/.rtorrent_session/
rm -f rtorrent.lock

That was all there was to it, once I removed the lock file I was able to start rTorrent.

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shell.person June 26, 2010 at 8:50 am

Thanks, worked perfectly.

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