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1 - Typical

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Symptoms

Due to long running locks (e.g.: lock while ssh-ing a compute rack which is unavailable), you may one day end up with the following error while trying to save a record:

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This means that the record is currently locked by a MySQL process.

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Clearing the lock from the Rails console

You can perform the following in order to kill the offending process:

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