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#61branches page gives an obscure error when repo has a stray lock

Simon Michael

To reproduce: create _darcs/lock in some repo, then try to view .../therepo/branches. The only error message is

Request handler threw an exception:
ExitFailure 1

• Simon MichaelSat Jul 27 20:10:33 UTC 2013

  Now I see, on stdout:

  Waiting for lock /home/darcsden/users/simon/animtest-hs/_darcs/lock
  Waiting for lock /home/darcsden/users/simon/animtest-hs/_darcs/lock
  Waiting for lock /home/darcsden/users/simon/animtest-hs/_darcs/lock
  [27/Jul/2013:13:07:08 -0700] During processing of request from ...
  Request handler threw an exception:
  thread killed

  and in the browser:

  error
  
  Sorry.. your GET request to /simon/animtest-hs/patches failed. The details have been logged.
  
  This request took too long and timed out.

  Which seems reasonable. I think getting a clear message that we gave up waiting for a lock file to be removed would require darcs changes ? We could just mention it as a possible cause in the timeout error message.