Could Not Unlock The Names Lock "GOOGLE.TXT" Because No Lock Is Known By That Name

Posted January 30, 2007 at 7:38 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion

I just had this error sent to me:

Could not unlock the named lock GOOGLE.TXT because no lock is known by that name.

I have absolutely no idea what this means. When I look at the chunk of code that seems to have triggered it, given the stack trace and ColdFusion tag context, it seems it was this CFLock tag:

  • <cflock
  • timeout="5"
  • throwontimeout="false"
  • name="google.txt"
  • type="EXCLUSIVE">
  •  
  • <cffile
  • action="APPEND"
  • file="#GetDirectoryFromPath( GetCurrentTemplatePath() )#google.txt"
  • output="#LOCAL.QueryValue#"
  • addnewline="true"
  • fixnewline="false"
  • />
  •  
  • </cflock>

But what about that could cause the error? And why would ColdFusion attempt to unlock a lock that had no name? I can only assume that the server was having a bit of trouble (hanging or about to shut down) and just "could not compute." The way I figure it, the only reason it would go to Unlock a lock would be in the close of a CFLock tag. However, if that was the case, surely the CFLock tag would know its own name??? Very curious.

Here is some of the stack trace if you are interested:

coldfusion.runtime.LockManager$UnknownLockException: Could not unlock the named lock .....GOOGLE.TXT because no lock is known by that name. at coldfusion.runtime.LockManager.releaseNamedLock(LockManager.java:89) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.LockTag.doFinally(LockTag.java:209) at cfApplication2ecfc1429649158$funcONSESSIONSTART.runFunction



Reader Comments

Ryan Guill
Jan 30, 2007 at 7:55 AM // reply »
5 Comments
1 Points

Is this code recently written? the name google.txt seems strange to me, only because it possibly may be that cf is thinking that is a variable of some sort?

Does it error every time, or just once in a blue moon?


brendan
Jan 30, 2007 at 8:24 AM // reply »
6 Comments
1 Points

first thing that strikes me is the use of a "." in the name, maybe its causing a problem. I know it should be a string but maybe under the hood in java its freaking it out.


brendan
Jan 30, 2007 at 8:27 AM // reply »
6 Comments
1 Points

google has a cached version of this error. Doesnt look like the "." is the cause as this guys lock has a different name

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:mhw3IYXq4pAJ:www.helpdesk.umd.edu/os/unix/applications/pine/394/+%22Could+not+unlock+the+named+lock+%22+%22because+no+lock+is+known+by+that+name%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2


brendan
Jan 30, 2007 at 8:29 AM // reply »
6 Comments
1 Points

I should google before adding comments!

heres the answer

http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/thread.cfm/threadid:42844

should be i a hot fix by the sounds of it


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